Overview

You are a mature, intrinsically-motivated, well-rounded web engineer, with a deep understanding of what makes great websites and applications.

You write clean, well-architected, scalable, secure, and high-performance JavaScript code. You’ll fit right in if you are excited about the innovation in the browser space (e.g., AngularJS), and have a long history of using JavaScript frameworks (e.g., jQuery, D3.js, Backbone.js).

You have about 10 years of experience, possibly spanning both engineering and design/UX. You’re an expert JavaScript programmer, perhaps an open-source contributor, and know HTML5/CSS3 inside out. You also care a great deal about quality, as evidenced by your insistence on testing (unit, end-to-end, load, performance), application instrumentation, and continuous deployment.

About Next Big Sound

Launched in 2009, Next Big Sound is the leading provider of analytics and insights for music, book publishing and brands. We merge tens of billions of data points (social media, press coverage, events) for hundreds of thousands of artists and authors with our customers’ proprietary sales and streaming data. We cover over 70% of the global recorded music industry and use our data to forecast the next big selling artist. Next Big Sound powers the Social 50 and Next Big Sound charts for Billboard, artist analytics for Spotify, and has raised $7.5m in venture financing from Foundry Group, IA Ventures, SofttechVC, and a handful of angel investors.

Curious about our interview process? We’ve open-sourced it.

Here’s an overview of our technical architecture. We also regularly post what we’re working on on our blog and on Next Big Sound Labs.

Finally, here’s a fun video of our NYC office featuring some of your future Next Big Sound colleagues.