JOIN YOUSICIAN
At Yousician, our job is to reimagine music education, so everyone can play. We’ve built an amazing team of creative, passionate, and independent people, all working together to help millions of musicians learn, play, reach their goals, and have fun. If this sounds like the right mission for you, you’re in the right place!
WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY
As a Backend Developer, you'll play a pivotal role in developing critical backend services for our GuitarTuna product, the world's #1 product for tuning instruments. You'll have the opportunity to shape the user experience journey from the ground up, influencing how 20+ Million users engage with our platform. At Yousician, you're not just implementing tickets; you're actively involved in the entire development process, from prototyping to feature release.
You'll have a unique opportunity to profoundly impact the lives of future musicians worldwide and re-imagine the way music education works.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Joining the GuitarTuna team as a backend developer means diving into an agile environment where innovation and collaboration thrive. Working alongside the dynamic GuitarTuna team, comprised of developers and designers, your role is pivotal in sculpting new features and refining existing ones. This entails not only coding but also close cooperation with team members and often with other teams across the organization.
As a Backend Developer at Yousician, your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Designing and implementing new features, ensuring robustness and maintainability.
- Writing well-documented tests and ensuring code coverage using frameworks like Pytest.
- Troubleshooting issues, ensuring smooth functionality of the platform.
- Participating in feature planning based on OKRs, driving the product roadmap forward.
- Designing experiments and supporting monetization efforts and platform infrastructure.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED
- Strong experience in backend development
- Proficiency in Python 3 and frameworks like Flask or FastAPI.
- Experience with REST-based API development and MongoDB or SQL databases.
- Cloud experience and familiarity with deploying scalable applications.
- Unit testing experience, preferably using Pytest or similar frameworks.
WHAT WE OFFER
- You’ll have an opportunity to join our international team, backed by the top VC’s and competing with the best education applications in the world
- You'll have a meaningful and profound impact on the lives of millions of musicians and future musicians all around the world.
- You’ll get to work with a passionate and friendly growing band of PMs, designers, developers and data scientists.
- You'll get a competitive compensation package - salary, perks- and work in an awesome office in the heart of Helsinki.
HOW TO APPLY
Send us your application and CV (in English). Let's make the world a more musical place together! #rockon
ABOUT US
Yousician is the world’s largest music-tech company, with millions of users worldwide. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Yousician is home to the category-defining Yousician and GuitarTuna apps. Yousician, the #1 platform to learn and play music, makes learning fun, easy, and more accessible for everyone. Yousician’s innovative, award-winning technology listens to you play and gives instant feedback. With interactive, gamified lessons and songs, and courses by world-famous artists like Metallica and Jason Mraz, Yousician empowers people to play music they love. GuitarTuna, the #1 tune-and-play app (iOS, Android, WP), has won numerous international business awards, including WIRED’s hottest Finnish start-up, SXSW, Midem, Launch.edu, and educational awards such as Sunday Times 'World's best apps' and Best European Learning Game. Today Yousician employs 140+ professionals from nearly 30 nationalities. We're hiring, so come join our amazing team and help us make the world a more musical place!
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