Senior Software Engineer - Web Squad Los Angeles, California, United States

Love music? Come sit with us. At our core, we help creative people make better music with cutting-edge technology.

The following information aims to provide potential candidates with a better understanding of the requirements for this role.

Output is one of the most influential and fastest-growing music-making software companies in the world used by the likes of Drake, Bjork, Rihanna, and Coldplay, to name a few.

Our mission is to inspire creativity and self-expression through music. With groundbreaking products providing new sources of inspiration and sound;

here at Output, we are on an endless journey to revolutionize the way people make music.

The Output team is looking for an Engineer to join the Web Engineering Team and play an active role in the creation, execution, management, and maintenance of Output’s various web properties and services.

The Web engineer will work with many departments including marketing, product, operations, and design, ensuring each department’s needs are met on Output.

com. A successful candidate must be self-motivated, detail-oriented, technically savvy, and energized to research and learn new technologies that may benefit Output’s web practices.

How you'll add value :

• Lead and deliver high impact website projects, features, and initiatives to support Output’s mission to inspire creativity and self-expression through music.
• Build and support the Output.com website and services using a variety of Web technologies, languages, and frameworks.
• Contribute to website development with a highly technical approach around analytics, SEO optimization, and quality.
• Participate in Web Engineering scrum team ceremonies, including daily standup meetings, backlog grooming and planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with partners in design, marketing, support, and product teams to support Web-related projects, features, and campaigns.
• Work with the Web engineering squad to plan and execute on technical initiatives to support growth and scaling.
• Evaluate technologies and solutions to support the modernization of our Web technology stack and to deliver continual improvements in performance and reliability.
• Work with QA to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve Web related issues, and to ensure quality of all releases.
• Implement and leverage automated testing, Website monitoring tools, and unit testing to improve our site usability and speed for critical Web user experiences.
• Apply SRE best practices to ensure all Output Web sites and services are fully functional at all times.
• Contribute to Output engineering best practices.

What you'll need to be successful in this role :

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a web engineer on a production site.
• CS degree or similar experience.
• Fluency in Typescript, CSS, VueJs, RESTful API integration, modern headless CMS solutions, etc.
• Experience with building, deploying, and maintaining customer-facing VueJS applications.
• Experience in building functional front-facing websites, with a keen eye for design / details and SEO best practices.
• Experience reading design documents and extracting assets.
• Proficiency with front-end coding and debugging. Understands and applies principles of page optimization, such as media queries, asynchronous loading, and caching.
• Strong understanding of ES6, HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, CSS frameworks (eg Bootstrap), version control (Git / Github).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Bonus : Passion for democratizing music making and empowering creative music makers.

Additional information :

In accordance with California law, the salary range for this role if filled within Los Angeles is $100,000 - $150,000. The range for the position in other geographies may vary based on market differences.

The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must reside in CA, WA, CO, NY, NJ, and FL.
• Output is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Output’s employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

Output has made a name for itself as one of the fastest growing, creative, and influential music-making software companies in the world.

The likes of Kendrick Lamar, Bjork, Rihanna, James Blake, Imagine Dragons, Justin Timberlake, Nine Inch Nails, and many more use our software to write music as well as hit shows and films like Stranger Things, Game of Thrones, and Black Panther.

We are a strong group of like-minded music makers and music lovers sharing the common goal of helping music makers around the world be creative.

We’re bonded by music. We’re motivated by challenging and fulfilling work. And we always do it while having fun.

We have adapted our working styles and have successfully launched new products, achieved record sales and we continue to thrive as a team all while working remotely.

We have embraced the work from anywhere revolution and will continue to hire all roles remotely unless otherwise stated.

Our Los Angeles office will remain open to those needing a space or looking for a place to collaborate with other teams.

Our culture has always valued our employee’s work-life balance and we offer 5 weeks of PTO, excellent health care, and a community of music enthusiasts.

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