Python Tech Lead

We’re looking for a Senior Tech Lead to help us build our Operating System for the Music Industry by managing our technical teams in order to continually improve our products. 

If you’re passionate about the music industry and thrive working in fast and uncertain scenarios, we’d like to hear the sound of your keyboard solving the challenges we’re facing. 

Our tech stack is mainly Python, Django, AWS, PostgreSQL, AWS Batch.

You will be leading our Pronto engineering product, a SaaS platform that ingests 24/7 all the plays from the Digital Service Providers like Spotify, Youtube, Amazon Music, Apple, etc and process trillions of these plays to find the proper rights owners and help the collective management organizations and music publishers to distribute fairly the revenue from the digital streams.

Requirements

• 6 years of experience as a software engineer
• 2 years of experience in a leadership role
• Strong knowledge of Python
• Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL)
• Being comfortable designing distributed systems (experience with AWS Batch/Redis RQ is a plus)
• Experience working with brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Experience working with cache (Redis is a plus)
• Experience with async Python code (asyncio)
• Being resolutive and creative
• Proven experience redesigning and refactoring systems
• Good communication skills - very important to have excellent written comms skills as most of the team works remotely
• Being proactive - you feel that you need to scale the system, you need to improve what is currently in place in order to always have the best platform, you don't need anybody telling to you what's your next step
• Being a leader - being the top responsible for the entire project and team, having the whole team aligned, working as a unit; removing silos, sharing knowledge, doing performance reviews, hiring people.

Languages

• English: fully proficient or fluent
• Spanish/Catalan a plus

Benefits

You Can Enjoy

• Flexible working hours and location
• Unlimited time off because we believe that you know best when you need to rest.
• You can make the role your own and run your own development
• Flat hierarchy
• Online language classes to improve your Spanish or English
• Online and onsite courses and music industry workshops run by inhouse experts
• We’ll provide you with all equipment needed for you to be comfortable
• Barcelona HQ office available to you, kitted out with a rehearsal room https://www.bmat.com/bmat-house/

Who the FAQ are BMAT

BMAT started in 2005 when a group of engineers with a passion for music decided to spin-off from an audio research lab in Barcelona. We’re now over 200 people, spread across Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, Nairobi, Oslo, Tel-Aviv, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok and Lagos.

We’re a team of pretty decent people who enjoy working with each other. We’re open-minded and well-traveled, coming from all parts of the world. We’ve got rappers, producers, cello players, DJs, and songwriters. The passion for music, the excitement for innovative technology and Barcelona as a backdrop has proven to make a good combination.

Join us from wherever you are on our mission to help make music live forever.

Diverse perspectives drive innovation, and innovation is kind of our thing. Our open-minded and flexible culture organically fosters this diversity. We've learnt that we thrive on learning from each other, so we don't just welcome but actively hire a range of open-minded people from all walks of life. Our team is made up of people with different backgrounds, perspectives, orientations, abilities, musical tastes, dress sense and time-zones - but we all have one common goal: Making the music world a better place. With equal opportunities for everyone, BMAT is a pretty nice place to work.