Senior Software Engineer, Royalties (Fully Remote, US and Latin America only)

How would you like to work in an environment in which you can directly shape the product?

At Molten Cloud, we don't believe in artificial boundaries or engineering silos. We don't split our team into front-end and back-end camps; everyone here has the opportunity to work across the entire stack. We pair this high level of project autonomy with a fully remote setup, company-covered AI coding tools, and a healthy culture that actually insists you take your vacation time.

Born out of MIT, Molten Cloud simplifies today’s complex intellectual property rights, content, and royalties operations for the media industry. Our platform is already used by major organizations to manage hundreds of millions of film and TV rights and host petabytes of content. In fact, our technology touches over 10% of all movies known to exist on IMDb.
We are a diverse, highly collaborative team backed by top-tier venture funds and prominent investors, including Jack Dorsey, Ashton Kutcher, and Michael Ovitz.

Why You Will Love Working Here

• Large, Interesting Problems to Solve: Our products are critical for the Hollywood industry and we’re sending content around the world to over 100 destinations. The problems we solve are consequential and every day we manage petabytes of data.
• Fast-Track Growth: With heavy mentorship and deep trust from day one, even our more junior team members quickly build the kind of influence and ownership typically reserved for seasoned staff.
• Modern Tooling: We want you to move fast. The company completely covers your subscriptions for advanced AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude.
• Real Flexibility: We offer work flexibility, and we are serious about you actually taking time off. 10 days a year — minimum.
• Extremely Smart Coworkers: Learn from the best and then pay it forward and mentor people yourself. We love to build leaders.
• A Culture of Camaraderie: We are a tight-knit group and there is a ton of camaraderie amongst our staff. We keep the connection strong with company offsites 1 to 2 times a year.

What You Will Do

• Take full ownership of application features: building, deploying, and iterating on them from end to end.
• Work across both the backend and frontend to design, architect, and scale our core platform.
• Ensure high performance, accuracy, and security for global user groups handling massive data streams.
• Collaborate directly with our Chief Product Officer and Lead Engineers to align your work with the broader product vision.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience: 2+ years of hands-on experience developing royalties software OR deep experience with accounting and finance or SaaS
• 5 to 10 years of overall hands-on software engineering experience
• Core Tech: Technical proficiency in Python and JavaScript.
• Our Stack (Bonus Points): Experience with Vue.js, Pinia, TypeScript, MongoDB, AI/LLMs, or DevOps tools is a major plus.
• The Right Mindset: You thrive in a startup environment. You are analytical, goal-oriented, and love taking the initiative to solve complex problems alongside a supportive team.

Those Who Need Not Apply

Our interview process includes live verification steps specifically designed to confirm you are a real, present human candidate. These methods are highly effective and have already identified and disqualified multiple non-human or proxy applicants. If you are not planning to personally attend and personally answer every question live, please do not apply. For everyone else, we genuinely can't wait to meet you.

How to Apply

If you want to build technology that shapes the global media landscape, all from home, we'd love to hear from you. Note: posted salary ranges apply to US-based candidates only; candidates based outside of the US will be compensated commensurate with experience and local pay scale. Principals only. Send your resume to Steve Gold at [email protected].