This New York based role reports to our CTO who is based in Reykjavík. We work hybrid and collaborate across timezones with our international development team.
Too Lost is a music distribution company building and operating systems that handle music delivery, reporting, payouts, and internal operational workflows. The company runs a data-heavy, transaction-heavy environment where reliability, correctness, and pragmatic engineering decisions matter.
The role is intended for an experienced engineer who can contribute independently, lead technical execution, and take ownership of refactoring and modernizing key services while continuing to ship product improvements.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the technical execution of full stack development across internal tools and platform features
- Contribute hands-on across backend and frontend development
- Take ownership of refactoring and restructuring existing services and workflows
- Drive improvements in architecture, maintainability, and development practices
- Mentor developers and contribute to building a stronger engineering team in Reykjavik and New York
- Collaborate across a distributed team and ensure smooth execution across time zones
- Maintain high standards for performance, reliability, and security in production systems
- Additional projects and responsibilities as assigned
What We’re Looking For:
- 7+ years of professional software development experience
- Can demonstrate strong hands-on full stack ability and prior technical leadership through real work (commercial or open-source)
- Strong professional experience in full stack web development
- Strong backend experience with modern server-side frameworks (Laravel experience is a plus, not a requirement)
- Strong frontend experience with modern JS frameworks (Vue experience is a plus, not a requirement)
- Solid understanding of relational databases, data modeling, and backend performance
- Experience working in production systems where correctness and stability are important
- Experience leading technical projects or guiding other developers
- Ability to work independently, make sound technical decisions, and take ownership of outcomes
Additional Skills We'd Love:
- Experience refactoring or modernizing legacy systems while maintaining ongoing delivery
- Experience working with financial, transactional, or payout-related systems
- Experience designing APIs and internal services used across teams
- Familiarity with background jobs, queues, and scalable system patterns
- Experience working with distributed development teams
Why Join Us?
- Make an impact in a company supporting thousands of artists worldwide
- Own mission-critical systems that power our core platform
- Work hybrid from New York, with flexibility across timezones
- Small, collaborative team with strong product focus
- Competitive salary and benefits
Salary range
- $130,000 - $140,000 per year
Skills Required
- 7+ years of professional software development experience
- strong hands-on full stack ability
- strong backend experience with modern server-side frameworks
- strong frontend experience with modern JS frameworks
- solid understanding of relational databases and data modeling
- experience leading technical projects or guiding other developers
Too Lost Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Too Lost and has not been reviewed or approved by Too Lost.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes employer-paid medical via Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield with dental, vision, and life insurance, indicating a robust core package. Role descriptions consistently reference these coverages alongside other details.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A monthly wellness stipend (up to $100), company events/partner discounts, and a free lifetime account with unlimited music distribution provide quality-of-life and industry-relevant perks. These additions complement the core benefits for employees engaged in music creation.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible hours, some remote roles, and hybrid schedules are described, showing adaptability by role and location. This flexibility can support work-life balance where implemented.
Too Lost Insights
What We Do
Too Lost is a music and technology company, providing SaaS solutions for independent music creators. Our distribution and publishing services deliver, monetize and protect songs across the globe for 300,000+ independent artists and labels.
Why Work With Us
Too Lost works on a hybrid schedule. We are in the office 4 days a week collaborating together and 1 work from home day each week. Additional Work from Home Days are available to request and allow flexibility as needed. Too Lost is a proud member of The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) and MERLIN. Headquartered in New York City.
