What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer position at Molten Cloud?
Molten Cloud is revolutionizing how the media industry manages its most critical operations. Our cloud platform empowers studios, broadcasters, distributors, streamers, and other media businesses to modernize outdated systems for rights, royalties, and content operations. With a modular approach and a global multi-cloud infrastructure, Molten Cloud enables customers to scale faster, operate more efficiently, and unlock new revenue streams, while paying only for the tools they need.
We partner with some of the world’s leading media companies, including Mubi, Radial Entertainment, Angel Studios, Black Bear Pictures, Highland Films, Electric Entertainment, and many others across six continents. Founded at MIT, Molten Cloud is committed to breaking the barriers that hold digital creativity and media experiences back today. We are a diverse team of hackers, hustlers, and hipsters, and are backed by top-tier venture funds and investors, including Jack Dorsey, Ashton Kutcher, and Michael Ovitz. ( more about that here ).
As a Software Engineer at Molten, you will join our product team in the following areas:
- Take individual contributor ownership of application features - to build, deploy and iterate upon them in Agile sprints
- Contribute to the design, architecture, research of Molten's core platform (which may include aspects of data transmission, security, back-end and front-end development)
- Test accuracy, performance and scalability to deploy robust systems for global user groups
- Collaborate with the business development team to best articulate the value proposition of product features to Molten's users, and with our technology partners to design and integrate broader solutions
- Work directly with the Chief Product Owner and Lead Engineers to align engineering objectives with the product vision and roadmap
Technical skill set: you are expected to have 3 to 5 years of hands-on software engineering experience, developing web-based products, with proficiency in Python and Javascript. You should be comfortable with Agile development and continuous delivery. Experience with MongoDB, Vue.js, Pinia, Typescript, AI/LLMs and devops tools is a strength. Media experience is a huge plus!
As an ideal fit for this role, you are:
- Analytical: you have a rigorous academic background in computer science, and a proven ability to think creatively, learn new skills and build innovative software products
- Entrepreneurial: you thrive in the startup environment, you take ownership of your work, you are passionate about ambitious ideas, and you can build teams around a shared vision; prior startup experience is a plus
- Team-player: you recognize that your success lies in the success of the team, you take initiatives to continuously improve collaboration, productivity and performance of the team
- Goal-oriented: when things seem to get overwhelming for most people, you have the demonstrated ability to put things in perspective, prioritize, and deliver results
Our culture: is about being rigorous at work and celebrating our big and small wins as a team. At Molten, you will have the opportunity to own and lead your own workstreams, learn from exceptional individuals on the team, and help build technology that matters across the world. From day one, every developer is given the power, support, and trust to deploy production code.