Senior Backend Engineer

Remote position within Argentina & Uruguay

RYZ Labs is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join one of our client’s teams. They are building a global clearing house for the music industry, helping artists, songwriters, and other rights holders get paid faster and more accurately. Their product is at the intersection of music publishing, copyright, and technology. 

As a senior member of the engineering team, you will be building the foundation of a music data platform. You will be designing and scaling services that handle large amounts of data, making it useful and searchable for the product teams internally, as well as for the rights holders externally. You will be reporting to the CTO and will be collaborating with the executive team to ensure the success of our strategy.

Basic Qualifications: 

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

- 5+ years of software development experience.

- Comfortable writing production code with Python and/or Typescript

- Extensive experience in developing and deploying large, distributed systems.

- Familiarity with large-scale data processing tools and platforms like Hadoop, Spark, or their equivalents.

- Experience with one of AWS/GCP/Azure cloud platforms

Preferred Qualifications:

- Advanced knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, ECS, and EMR.

- Experience with Node.js, Docker- Background in the copyright space, particularly in music or related media industries.

- Bonus points for experience working with text embeddings and search infrastructure

- Love of music is a plus! Especially knowledge of music composition and publishing

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop and deploy scalable, efficient systems for our music copyright platform

- Design and build large-scale distributed systems that can process massive amounts of external data and integrate it into products to meet client requirements

- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to align technical strategies with business goals

- Develop features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant manner

- Understand the intricacies of music copyright and music metadata standards in the United States and around the world

About RYZ Labs:

RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.

Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries,planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.

At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion, and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.

Our values and what to expect:

- Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer.

- Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated.

- Ownership - step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility. 

- Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone who interacts with RYZ with respect.

- Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less

- Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way. 

- Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, and our expectations. The status quo is not good enough and never should be.