Lead Software Engineer - MOLTEN Cloud｜Meet.jobs

• Role: Lead Software Engineer
• Location: Boston/ NYC/ LA/ SF/ remote in the US
• Compensation structure: cash + benefits + equity
• Consideration: first come first serve
• Company website: https://moltencloud.com/

About us: MOLTEN empowers rights-holders of media content. MOLTEN Cloud platform transforms and simplifies today's complex intellectual property rights, content and licensing operations — so that rights-holders are able to efficiently monetize their content globally. Our platform is used by film/TV organizations across 6 continents of the world to manage over 180M rights, hosting data and content for over 6% of all movies known to exist (per imdb). MOLTEN is a Cambridge-based startup, founded in the heart of MIT, committed to modernizing the archaic value-chain of media rights. We are a diverse team of hackers, hustlers, and hipsters, and are backed by leading media-tech investors such as Jack Dorsey, Ashton Kutcher and Michael Ovitz.

As a Lead Software Engineer at MOLTEN, you will join our product team in the following areas:

• Take ownership of and lead the development of select modules - meet users, define requirements, build, deploy and iterate in Agile sprints
• Build project teams with other engineers, plan and lead sprints
• Contribute to the design, architecture, research of MOLTEN’s core platform (which may include aspects of data transmission, security, back-end and front-end development)
• Test accuracy, performance and scalability to deploy robust systems for global user groups
• Incorporate user-centricity in the product, meet directly with users to collect requirements and feedback to continuously improve and optimize the user experience
• Collaborate with the business development team to best articulate and share the value proposition of your system to its users, and with our technology partners to design and integrate broader solutions
• Train, coach and mentor engineers on the team

Technical skill set: you are expected to have 4 to 8 years of hands-on software engineering experience, developing web-based products, with expertise in Python and Javascript. Experience with MongoDB, API documentation, Vue.js, blockchain and devops tools is a strength.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. You are:

• Analytical: you have a rigorous academic background in computer science, math, physics or a similar field, and a proven ability to think original, learn new skills and build innovative software products
• Entrepreneurial: you thrive in the startup environment, you take ownership of your work, you are passionate about ambitious ideas, and you can build teams around a shared vision; prior startup experience is a plus
• Team-player: you recognize that your success lies in the success of the team, you take initiatives to continuously improve collaboration, productivity and performance of the team
• Goal-oriented: when things seem to get overwhelming for most people, you have the demonstrated ability to put things in perspective, prioritize, and deliver results

Our culture: is about being rigorous at work and celebrating our big and small wins as a team. At MOLTEN, you will have the opportunity to own and lead your own workstreams, learn from exceptional individuals on the team, and build industry-shaping technology that matters across the world. From day one, every developer is given the power, support, and trust to deploy production code. Benefits will include health, vision, dental, and unlimited vacation policy. If you want to join us, send us a note with your resume and/or Github.