Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

About Sound Exchange

Sound Exchange is the largest global neighboring rights organization in the world, redefining how creators in the music industry get paid. By turning data into fast, accurate revenue for artists and rights owners, we have collected and distributed more than $13 billion in digital performance royalties to date on behalf of more than 800,000 music creators. As the sole organization designated by the U.S. government to administer the Section 114 sound recording license, Sound Exchange seamlessly collects and distributes digital performance royalties from platforms like Pandora, SiriusXM, iHeart

Radio, and thousands more, as well as all available international performance royalties through a strong global partnership network.

Title: Senior, Full Stack Software Engineer
Department: Technology
Job Location: Washington, DC ( if local, In office Tuesdays & Wednesdays)
Reports To: Lead Software Engineer
Supervisory Role: No
FLSA Status: Exempt

Position Summary

Working on applications supporting the Sound Exchange mission, to help creators identify and track their rights and payments, the Senior Full Stack Software Engineer will be a key contributor to the full software development lifecycle while collaborating with other contributors within their technical team. They will work on maintaining and enriching robust applications that deal with data processing and business operations, owning features end-to-end across Vue.js-based

front-end interfaces and Java/Spring Boot backend services. For this opening the ideal candidate has genuine hands-on experience on both sides of the stack, with particular strength on the front-end side in Vue, as well as a positive attitude, and the ability to quickly adapt to rapidly changing priorities.

• Contribute as a code author and reviewer within a small team of software engineers
• Collaborate across small Agile teams to design, develop, test, and support data-driven solutions
• Actively participate in architecture discussions and decision-making both within their team and across Engineering; communicate challenges and roadblocks and help ideate on solutions
• Interface with key product stakeholders, mentor junior team members, and promote and improve software engineering practices
• Demonstrate responsibility, accountability, and dedication to engineering team success
• Establish and promote use of technologies and processes that lower risk and increase efficiency
• Support and improve established software development standards and best practices

Proficiency in our current stack would accelerate success however equivalent modern stack experience would definitively be considered.

• Vue.js (Vue 3, Composition API), including state management (Pinia/Vuex) and modern build tooling (Vite)
• Type Script and/or other front-end frameworks (React, Angular) building responsive, accessible UIs and translating wireframes into production components
• Front-end testing frameworks (Vitest, Cypress, Playwright)
• Building performant UIs (e.g., pagination, virtualization, lazy loading)

• Java (Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate) and SQL (Postgres)
• AWS stack (ECS, S3, Fargate, Open Search, Elasti Cache, RDS/Aurora, Athena, Step Functions)
• Terraform or other infrastructure as code technologies
• Event-based systems
• Working with large data sets at scale

• 7 or more years of experience in software engineering
• Demonstrated hands-on experience across the full stack — both front-end and back-end layers required
• Experience building enterprise software with complex business rules and data models
• Familiarity with distributed systems or microservices architectural concepts
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proficiency in Agile software development methodology, processes, and practices
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

• This position requires the ability to remain in a stationary position (standing and/or seated) all the time
• This position operates machinery and/or equipment that requires the constant use of hands/fingers/wrists (ex: typing, etc.) all the time
• This position requires the ability to spend all the time viewing computer monitors

• If hired remote, this person is expected to travel to the Washington DC corporate office as needed (3-4 times per year minimum).

All engineers have access to AI coding assistance, but there is no overall requirement to use AI tools. As a department we are always open to innovation and are looking for ways to help us with our day-to-day.

PAY RANGE: $ - $

Note :

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Management…