API Engineer

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🕒 August 8

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £100k - £140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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DistroKid

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

👥 B2C

☁️ SaaS

💰 Venture Round on 2021-08

Music • B2C • SaaS

DistroKid is a digital music distribution service that provides musicians with a simple way to upload and distribute their music to major streaming platforms and online stores like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Tidal, TikTok, YouTube, and more. It offers unlimited uploads for a low annual fee, allowing musicians to keep 100% of their earnings. DistroKid is known for its fast distribution times and unique features that support artists' promotional needs, such as Hyperfollow pages, playlist submissions, and video creation tools. The service caters to a wide variety of musicians, including solo artists, bands, producers, and labels, making it a popular choice among independent artists looking to maintain control over their music distribution.

📋 Description

• Own the design and implementation of high-scale backend systems and APIs powering DistroKid’s core platform • Architect and evolve distributed systems on AWS for high throughput, reliability, and performance • Work across backend, infrastructure, and DevOps from API design through deployment and system operations • Design and integrate enterprise-grade systems and external platforms for high-scale workflows • Guide technical design decisions involving data models, service boundaries, scaling strategies, and failure handling • Write production code and remain actively involved in building and improving systems • Improve system observability, reliability, and performance at scale • Partner with product and engineering teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions • Work on high-volume ingestion, global distribution, and elaborate financial flows • Shape architecture at scale and own systems affecting millions of creators worldwide

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems in production environments • Solid, recent hands-on coding experience • Deep experience with AWS, including compute, storage, networking, and scaling • Experience designing and operating high-scale distributed systems • Extensive experience with API design and system architecture in involved environments • Experience across infrastructure and application layers, including DevOps, deployment, and reliability • Experience with enterprise integration platforms such as AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong, or similar, or experience building and operating large-scale integration layers • Ability to own systems end-to-end from architecture through implementation and production operation • Ability to navigate ambiguity and make critical technical judgments • Professional software engineering experience excluding internships • Must not require visa, work permit, or extension sponsorship in any country

🏖️ Benefits

• Retirement plans (401k, SIPP, RRSP, etc.) • Health insurance • Generous paid time off • Parental leave • Home office allowance • Flexible work schedules • Paid and discounted subscriptions • Regular engagement activities • Fully remote company • Employee-first culture