Remote Software Engineer - Developer Tools & Productivity

Who are we?

Audius is a digital streaming service that connects fans directly with artists and exclusive new music. 

It does this by being fully decentralized: Audius is owned and run by a vibrant, open-source community of artists, fans, and developers all around the world. Audius gives artists the power to share never-before-heard music and monetize streams directly. Developers can build their own apps on top of Audius, giving them access to one of the most unique audio catalogs in existence. 

Backed by an all-star team of investors, Audius was founded in 2018 and serves over 4,000,000 users every month, making it the largest non-financial crypto application ever built.

Who we are looking for?

We are looking for passionate team-players to help us guarantee the stability and quality of the Audius product and protocol. You are a collaborative engineer who enjoys working with a small team to solve big problems that need innovative solutions. You’re eager to jump into multiple parts of our tech stack and have strong CS fundamentals to do so. We solve a lot of problems that can't be easily Googled or searched on StackOverflow.

Our Company

Audius is a 18-person team of entrepreneurs, engineers, audiophiles, and blockchain experts. Our benefits include unlimited PTO, high quality paid medical insurance, FSA, 401k, yearly learning stipend, equipment stipend and a home office setup credit. We also have a monthly concert credit (COVID-19 permitting).

Our company is fully remote forever and our team is currently distributed across the United States.

About this position:

As a software engineer focused on quality, you will be responsible for ensuring the continued performance of the world's largest open, decentralized, blockchain-backed music player. Audius is complex. We are solving legacy industry problems in the music space with novel technology in a large-scale distributed systems context. In order to make Audius scale, we are looking for someone to help secure smooth operation in all areas of our stack by building developer tools to give us insight into the operations of the protocol and identifying the best ways to test our most critical and complicated flows.

What you'll do at Audius:

• Build and maintain all our developer tooling, testing infrastructure and tests, like our custom in-house Jepsen inspired test suite, mad-dog
• Read and update application code to figure out how to best test complicated flows
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to identify critical systems and user flows that need to be tested
• Work with our release captain to triage production bugs, identify regressions and minimize future impacts of such bugs
• Create dashboards to track test coverage metrics
• Manage CI and optimize the loop between development and testing

Skills and Experience

• 2+ years of working as a software engineer focused on developer productivity or internal tooling
• Experience reading code and writing test specs for services with minimal guidance
• Solid understanding of scripting programming languages like Python or JavaScript as well as Linux and Bash
• Experience triaging bugs and regressions on production
• Understanding of modern unit, integration and system test tools like Selenium, Playwright, Mocha, Jasmine, Nock, Pytest
• Familiarity with modern CI & CD tooling/services like CircleCI
• Experience working collaboratively with engineering and product teams

Bonus Points:

• You've built a testing framework yourself
• Passionate about music
• Experience building internal developer tooling/working on developer productivity
• Knowledgeable about blockchain and decentralization