Tech Lead

Grey Matter is a social music app with cross-platform streaming integrations and expressive ways to share, discover, and support music. Imagine if Instagram + Sonos had a kid and Reddit + Patreon had a kid and those two kids had a kid.

We’re seeking a hands-on engineering captain who can provide technical leadership across all aspects of our organization. We’ve just soft launched onto the app stores after a six-month beta period with Spotify, Apple Music, Giphy, and Canny integrations. We already have a strong technical infrastructure, a robust roadmap, and a dynamic team of invested partners. Grey Matter’s next phase will focus on community growth and adding new community features and streaming integrations.

Our ideal candidate is a strong mobile developer with the leadership skills to build and lead a development team. This person is also curious, reliable, humble, and a fierce music lover.

We use:

Development

• React Native (Frontend)
• Node (Backend)
• Sentry (Error logging)
• GitHub (Version control)
• Firestore (Database)
• Google Cloud (Hosting)
• Segment (Analytics)
• Clickup (Documentation)

Communication

• Slack
• Google Hangouts

Our Tech Lead will:

• Own and guide the technical roadmap and development workflow.
• Architect and implement new features.
  
• Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with business goals.
• Audit and optimize our current technical tools, structure, and processes.
• Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors.
• Build and foster our tech team.
• Organize sprints and allocate responsibilities appropriately.

Our Tech Lead has:

• 5+ years of full-stack app development and demonstrable proficiency with JavaScript frameworks like React Native and Node.js.
• 3+ years leading teams in an Agile workflow.
• Knowledge of tech trends to build and guide strategy.
• Outstanding communication skills.
• Strong interest in music and its communities.
• Grasp of the music tech ecosystem is a big plus.