Lead Back-End Engineer

About Beat Stars

Founded in 2008, Beat Stars is the world’s leading music creator platform, powering over 10 million creators across 192 countries. Through its marketplace, publishing, and studio tools, Beat Stars helps producers, songwriters, and artists build sustainable careers as music entrepreneurs. The company is pioneering a responsible approach to assistive AI that protects creators’ rights while unlocking new creative possibilities.

We’re looking for a Lead Back-End Engineer to help define the technical standard for our Backend practice while continuing to ship production-grade software. You’ll be more than an individual contributor. You’ll be a technical standard-bearer. This role exists to elevate our engineering quality, reduce tech debt, and ensure we’re building products in robust, reliable, and rapid ways. You’ll help shape how we architect, build, review, and ship code across the Backend.

Within your first quarter, you’ll be writing production code, defining standards, and helping the team execute with greater clarity and confidence.

• Serve as the technical lead for the Backend practice.
• Actively design, write, review, and ship production code—this is a hands‑on leadership role.
• Define and document engineering standards, patterns, and best practices for your domain.
• Ensure code quality, scalability, and maintainability across the stack.
• Partner closely with Product to translate PRDs into clear technical execution plans.
• Audit existing systems and proactively identify opportunities to reduce tech debt.
• Write production‑ready code regularly—this is a hands‑on leadership role.
• Establish processes for enforcing standards through code reviews, CI/CD, and documentation.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders to ship features predictably and reliably.
• Technical mentor to 3–5 engineers.

• 5+ years at a company where you’ve shipped and supported production applications and systems serving large‑scale user bases (hundreds of thousands to millions of users).
• Strong full‑stack capabilities with deep passion and expertise in backend (BE) systems, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Strong backend engineering experience with proficiency in Go (Golang) and a track record of building production‑grade systems (5+ years preferred).
• Experience with object‑oriented languages such as Java or C# is also valued (bonus).
• Deep familiarity with AWS, including services like ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, and overall cloud architecture.
• Experience building and working with GraphQL APIs, particularly in high‑scale applications.
• Experience working on scalable, production‑grade applications.
• Strong architectural instincts and understanding of system design.
• Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, high‑quality code.
• Excellent communication skills — able to clearly explain technical decisions to both engineers and product partners.
• Experience collaborating daily with Product teams.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred (Master’s or higher is a plus).

• You’re comfortable using modern tools, including AI, to improve your productivity and output.
• You care deeply about engineering standards and hate just ship it chaos.
• You’ve seen what good architecture looks like — and what happens when it’s missing.
• You enjoy setting direction and raising the bar for others.
• You’re comfortable being both hands‑on and strategic.
• You want to help build a high‑performance engineering culture from the inside.
• You move quickly, but you don’t sacrifice quality.
• You believe Product & Engineering should operate as a tightly coupled unit.

• Elite Tier Benefits Program – generous contributions towards medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) Matching.
• FSA/HSA.
• 20 PTO days (+5 Days at 4 years tenure) and routine sick days.
• 10 Company Observed Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays.
• 8 weeks of parental leave paid at 100%.
• Company‑sponsored Short Term Disability and Basic Life Insurance.
• Voluntary Benefits (LTD, Additional Life, and 401k).
• Flexible work hours.
• $70/month tech reimbursement.
• $30/month wellness reimbursement.
• Virtual social events and…