Senior full stack developer (4+ days a week)
Make Waves was founded in 2021 by two brothers with a track record in the music and tech industry. We’re building a kinder, more helpful service for independent artists to release their music and build a following. By providing artists with easy-to-understand tools and insights in a notoriously over-complicated industry, we want to empower DIY artists to control their careers without making concessions.
Over the last years we've proved our model and founding team. We're now slowly focusing more on the promotional side of the lifecycle, with some brand new and shiny projects in the pipeline, and trying to simplify the distribution process even more while we learn more.
We're looking for a strong full stack developer to join our small development team. You’ll play a key role in defining our development focus in harmony with the founders and support team. You are eager to create products that people love to use and are able to think from the perspective of the user and deliver meaningful features from abstract requests. You’re able to think about the entire context of the product we’re building, not just the one feature.
As we’re a small team (7 right now) you’ll find lots of time to work on our back-end processes (for which we use Python mainly) that connect to our front-end applications (React, TypeScript, next.js) over simple restful API’s. As a developer, you are open to learn and adapt but know when to use proven technology over the industry's current buzz.
In our team you’ll be able to really bring your ideas and shape the way and what we’ll be working on. This also means we all wear many different hats every day and you’ll be able to contribute on many different aspects of the product we’re building.
If you have a passion and understanding of the music industry, that's great, and you'll love what we do, but it is surely not a requirement as long as you’re willing to learn the insights of the industry.
- Our frontends use React, TypeScript and next.js developed in a monorepo
- For the backend processes we use Python mainly (with lots of type annotations)
- The API’s are mainly served using FastAPI
- PostgreSQL as our primary database, which we talk to using SQLAlchemy
- We ship everything as docker containers and run them on GKE
- Google Cloud for everything, managed using Terraform
- Automated deployments using Github Actions, Fluxcd
- Able to work independently and take ownership within a small team and thrive in a flexible environment
- You have proven track record of the full stack of technologies and practices (4+ years)
- Familiarity with SQL databases and transactional guarantees
- Write high quality, well documented and tested code
- Good understanding of Git and Github
- Strong verbal and written communications skills (English)
- Available at least 4 days a week, of which one on site at our office in Amsterdam (we're unfortunately not in a position to offer relocation or visa sponsorship)
- Competitive salary and compensation
- Lots of freedom and possibility to take ownership of the product within a small team
- The ability to work on something totally fresh and built from the ground up
- A nice office space in Amsterdam where you'll have the ability to both socialise and find the silence needed to work
- Flexibility to work from home or wherever
- Ability to plan your own time, if you deliver on your work we don’t ask many questions
- You’ll get a laptop of course, we all use macbooks but if you prefer something else that’s fine (and you’ll have a 4K screen at the office)
Send us an e-mail at careers@makewaves.fm.
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