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MelodyIQ - 1mo ago
Mid level Backend Dev for SaaS the music industry
$80,000 — 100,000
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We¡¯re hiring a freelance mid-level backend developer to join our 100% remote, talented, energetic small team.
At MelodyIQ, we build music analytics tools trusted by the world¡¯s top record labels ¡ª Sony, Universal, Def Jam, Island Records, and more.
The code you ship will directly shape how global campaigns are run for the world¡¯s biggest artists like Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Calvin Harris.
Role description
You¡¯ll start with daily maintenance and support tickets, then grow into deeper backend ownership ¡ª improving performance, fixing bugs, and building new features that matter.
You¡¯re reliable, detail-focused, and proactive: someone who can keep the lights on while making the system better every week.
Commitment: Minimum 4 hours per day, but ideally 6-8 hours per day.
Contract: Will start as month-to-month freelance, with the option to move to long-term hire if it¡¯s a great fit.
Timezone: We¡¯re prioritising candidates located between Europe and Australia, with at least 4 hours of daily overlap with Central European Time (ideal: Eastern Europe).
What You¡¯ll Do
- Handle daily system maintenance and customer support tickets
- Debug and fix bugs in production with care and precision
- Improve reliability and performance of our backend systems
- Refactor existing Javascript code into TypeScript and clean up legacy code
- Build internal automations and tools to make life easier for the team
- Write and maintain tests that keep our systems fast and dependable
- Take part in database migrations, CI improvements, and dependency upgrades
- Monitor dashboards and proactively flag potential issues
- Ship pragmatic solutions, not over-engineered ones
Example Tasks You Might Work On
- Upgrading our PostgreSQL instance
- Optimizing PostgreSQL queries
- Refactoring backend code from Javascript into TypeScript
- Setting up Grafana dashboards to monitor key metrics
- Reducing GCP costs through smarter infrastructure decisions
- Migrating GCP Gen1 to Gen2 cloud functions
- Improving CI/CD deployment processes
- Cleaning up old/unused database tables
Who We¡¯re Looking For
- 4+ years of experience as a backend or full stack engineer
- Strong written communicator (we¡¯re async and remote-first)
- Comfortable working autonomously day to day
- Trustworthy, conscientious, and detail-oriented
- Pragmatic: proud of your code but focused on simplicity and maintainability
- Curious and eager to learn, especially in a fast-moving SaaS startup
- Previous experience in fully remote async teams is a plus
Required technical skills
- Very experienced at large PostgreSQL databases in a work setting
- Node
- Typescript / javascript
- At least basic React
Nice to have technical skills
- Google cloud
- Experienced at React
- Redis
- Github actions
- Grafana/Prometheus
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