Genius

Build and maintain scalable backend data pipelines, databases, and APIs for a high-traffic music platform. | At least 4 years backend/data engineering experience, proficiency with backend frameworks, databases, data pipelines, and strong collaboration skills. | About Genius Genius is the leading destination for music, lyrics, and the stories behind the songs. At the intersection of music, technology, and culture, Genius connects fans with deeper meaning behind the world’s most influential music. Join an exceptionally talented team of engineers, designers, product leaders, and business builders who are shaping the future of music and media. Genius continues to grow its presence across the U.S., with teams in Los Angeles, New York, and beyond. Your Role at Genius Genius is looking for an in-person Backend Engineer to help build the ultimate music companion. Overseeing a community of hundreds of millions of daily active users contributing to millions of pages of lyrics, annotations, and music metadata, your work will power product features and analytics on Genius.com, insights in our public API, and data exchange with our partners—with no shortage of interesting challenges to solve. As a backend engineer for Genius, you will play a key role in strengthening our data infrastructure, helping us process, transform, and serve the music knowledge that powers everything we do. You’ll build the pipelines, databases, and APIs that allow us to serve unique music insights to our fans. Additionally, you'll work to improve the stability, performance, and scalability of Genius' backend services, which is no small feat for a platform serving millions of users daily! Please Note: This role is based in Los Angeles, and candidates will be required to work onsite 3–4 days per week, or as needed, at our Beverly Hills office, located at 131 S. Rodeo Dr., Suite 375, Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Candidates must be located in the Los Angeles area. What You’ll Do - Build and maintain pipelines to process, transform, and deliver Genius' unique music data to partners, internal systems, and business analytics - Proactively identify and fix infrastructure bottlenecks to scale backend services to hundreds of thousands of requests per minute - Architect database query patterns and migrations in PostgreSQL, Clickhouse and BigQuery that scale to large tables with 1B+ rows - Design and implement backend APIs that serve data reliably and performantly to our frontend and partner integrations - Take ownership over the systems you build, proactively identifying and surfacing performance, reliability, and maintainability improvements - During your on-call rotation, be the backstop for backend quality, stability, and performance. Triage incoming issues to find the most urgent problems, and handle emergent incidents to keep services online - Work directly with stakeholders to uncover and address business needs, including product owners, end users, and other engineers across the company What We’re Searching For - Backend Framework Proficiency: Strong experience with Ruby on Rails (or a similar "batteries-included" framework). Candidates should be comfortable working with large, established codebases, and have an understanding of architectural patterns necessary to build APIs at scale. - Database Expertise: Deep proficiency with both relational and non-relational databases for both OLTP and OLAP workloads. Candidates should be able to design database schemas, write complex queries, optimize performance for scale, and manage migrations on large, high-traffic tables. - Data Pipeline Experience: Hands-on experience building and maintaining ELT pipelines and workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow. Candidates should be comfortable with data modeling, scheduling, monitoring, and debugging complex pipeline jobs. - Product Ownership: Brings a product-first mindset, able to drive projects from ideation to launch while focusing on technical quality, system reliability, and user experience. - Collaboration & Communication: Comfortable working cross-functionally with frontend engineers, data analysts, product, and other teams to ensure clarity, alignment, and smooth execution of projects. - Continuous Learning: Demonstrates a passion for staying current with new technologies, frameworks, and industry best practices, proactively applying improvements to code quality and team workflows. - Experience: At least 4 years of hands-on experience in a backend or data engineering capacity, preferably in a product-driven environment. - B.S. in Computer Science or a related field is a plus—but not required with equivalent hands-on experience The base salary range for this position is $145,000–$180,000 and is determined based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, relevant skills, and industry knowledge.

Design, build, and maintain scalable full stack features and systems with collaboration and mentorship. | 5+ years experience in full stack development with strong backend and frontend skills, system architecture knowledge, and mentoring ability. | About Genius Genius is the leading destination for music, lyrics, and the stories behind the songs. At the intersection of music, technology, and culture, Genius connects fans with deeper meaning behind the world’s most influential music. Join an exceptionally talented team of engineers, designers, product leaders, and business builders who are shaping the future of music and media. Genius continues to grow its presence across the U.S., with teams in Los Angeles, New York, and beyond. Your Role at Genius Genius is looking for an experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer to build, maintain, and enhance features across our platform. This is a hands-on role where you'll work across both front-end and back-end development, collaborating with the team to design scalable solutions, improve existing systems, and deliver high-quality products. You'll also contribute to areas such as database design, system architecture, and overall platform performance. Please Note: This role is based in Los Angeles, and candidates will be required to work onsite 3–4 days per week, or as needed, at our Beverly Hills office, located at 131 S. Rodeo Dr., Suite 375, Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Candidates must be located in the Los Angeles area. What You’ll Do - Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to design and develop new features that deliver real impact to millions of users - Write clean, scalable, and testable code that’s production-ready and built to last - Mentor and contribute to technical design discussions, architecture planning, and in-depth code reviews across multiple teams - Take ownership of deployments to Staging and Production environments, ensuring quality and stability, and participate in the on-call rotation as needed - Drive long-term architectural improvements and help establish internal best practices and documentation standards - Champion a culture of engineering excellence, performance optimization, and continuous improvement across the stack - Collaborate with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to ensure reliable system performance, monitoring, and uptime - Help onboard and mentor junior engineers, providing regular feedback and technical guidance - Contribute to the evaluation and adoption of new technologies and frameworks that improve team efficiency and product quality - Translate business and product requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions What We’re Searching For - 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade web applications - Expertise in backend frameworks such as Ruby (preferred), or similar experience in Python, Node.js, or Django - Solid frontend development skills with React or Rails, and a strong grasp of modern JavaScript practices - A proven track record of scaling full-stack applications in high-traffic, user-facing environments - Strong understanding of API design, database architecture, data modeling, and system performance tuning - Familiarity with agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and comprehensive testing strategies - Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and monitoring tools such as New Relic, Datadog, or similar - Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders - A proactive, ownership-driven mindset—you don't wait to be told what to do - Passion for continuous learning, keeping up with emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks - B.S. in Computer Science or a related field is a plus—but not required with equivalent hands-on experience The base salary range for this position is $175,000–$190,000 and is determined based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, relevant skills, and industry knowledge.