Backend Engineering Lead — Streaming & FinTech Infrastructure

## About the Company We are building a next-generation music technology platform designed to reshape how artists, fans, rights holders, and music assets interact inside the digital music economy. The founding team has already made meaningful impact in the DSP and audio advertising space through VoxtonePro, a pioneering self-serve audio advertising platform for digital streaming environments. That experience now informs a larger and more ambitious music technology venture currently attracting interest across the music industry, venture capital, and strategic partner circles. This is not a conventional streaming app role. We are building a platform at the intersection of music streaming, fan engagement, rights infrastructure, fintech-style asset participation, royalties, and scalable digital commerce. We are seeking a serious senior backend leader who can help architect, build, and scale the core technical infrastructure behind the product. This is a founding board role. ## The Role The Founding Backend Lead — Streaming & FinTech Infrastructure will own and lead the backend systems that power our mobile application, future web application, internal admin tools, API layers, user systems, transaction flows, royalty-related logic, asset participation features, and scalable platform services. You will work closely with the founder, product leadership, iOS/front-end developers, design teams, and future engineering hires to ensure the platform is secure, scalable, efficient, and commercially ready. This role is ideal for a senior engineer who wants to move beyond being an employee and become an early technical leader in a venture with category-defining ambitions. This is not your average team, nor your average application. ## Key Responsibilities ### Backend Architecture & API Development - Design, build, and manage the core backend architecture for a high-growth music technology platform. - Develop secure, scalable APIs that communicate cleanly with iOS/mobile interfaces and future web applications. - Build backend services supporting user accounts, content access, payments, permissions, creator/admin tools, data flows, analytics, and transaction logic. - Ensure backend systems are modular, well-documented, testable, and capable of supporting future product expansion. ### Streaming & Platform Infrastructure - Support backend systems related to music/media access, content delivery, user entitlement, playback permissions, catalog metadata, and platform-level media workflows. - Work with mobile/front-end teams to ensure app UI, backend logic, and streaming-related features operate with low latency and high reliability. - Help evaluate and integrate appropriate cloud, database, storage, CDN, media, and security infrastructure. ### FinTech-Style Product Logic - Help architect backend systems involving user balances, revenue attribution, royalty-style distributions, fractional participation logic, transaction records, payment events, and internal financial re