Backend Engineer (Product APIs)

📋 Description

• • Join Hook, a dynamic and rapidly growing social music platform backed by top-tier investors, as a Backend Engineer focused on Product and APIs. We are at the forefront of revolutionizing music discovery, fan expression, and creator growth, transforming beloved songs into interactive experiences that are intuitive and require no learning curve. By forging direct partnerships with artists, labels, and rights holders, Hook ensures that music is not only discovered and shared but also expressed in ways that genuinely respect and reward the creative talent behind it. At Hook, music transcends passive consumption; it becomes a deeply personal and expressive experience.
• • In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and scaling the critical APIs and core backend systems that underpin Hook's entire product experience, spanning both mobile and web applications. You will take ownership of the backend services responsible for a wide array of functionalities, including content creation workflows, sophisticated media processing, robust user profiles, engaging social interactions, and intricate rights management systems. This is a highly product-facing backend position, demanding close collaboration with frontend engineers, specialized AI recommendation teams, product managers, and talented designers.
• • Your primary objective will be to ensure Hook's application remains exceptionally fast, consistently reliable, and architected for massive scalability. You will play a key role in shaping our system architecture, driving significant improvements in performance, and developing clean, extensible APIs that are designed to facilitate rapid experimentation and sustained growth. This involves a deep dive into the technical intricacies of our platform, ensuring it can handle the demands of a burgeoning user base and an expanding feature set.
• • Key responsibilities will include:
• • Designing, developing, and maintaining robust, scalable backend services and APIs that form the backbone of the Hook product.
• • Collaborating intimately with frontend engineers to meticulously define and implement clean, efficient, and well-documented API contracts, ensuring seamless integration and developer experience.
• • Architecting sophisticated systems capable of supporting high-throughput content creation pipelines, complex media processing tasks, and dynamic social interactions at scale.
• • Proactively optimizing the performance, reliability, and latency across all core product flows, ensuring a smooth and responsive user experience.
• • Contributing significantly to database design, managing schema evolution, and developing effective data modeling strategies to support current and future product needs.
• • Implementing comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to guarantee system health, enable rapid issue detection, and ensure high observability.
• • Actively participating in technical design discussions, providing valuable insights, and helping to shape the long-term backend architecture of the Hook platform.
• • Building flexible, modular systems that empower rapid experimentation and iteration, allowing product teams to quickly test and deploy new features.
• • This role offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology within the music and social media space. You will be at the heart of how our application functions, directly influencing product velocity, the evolution of our system architecture, and the foundational infrastructure that supports millions of creative interactions. Your work will have a tangible impact on the user experience and the overall success of Hook as we build a category-defining social music platform.