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title: 'Full Stack Engineer at Downtown Music'
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# Full Stack Engineer at Downtown Music

- **Company:** Downtown Music
- **Location:** Nashville, TN
- **Posted:** 2026-07-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/downtownmusic/jobs/8634235002

## Job description

Downtown Music Publishing is looking for a driven individual to join us as a Full Stack Software Engineer to help build our next-generation music publishing platform from the ground up. You'll help in shaping the architecture, tooling, and engineering culture of a catalog management platform that powers musical work registration, rights tracking, and royalty collection for publishers worldwide. Currently seeking candidates local to the Nashville Area.

## What you'll do

- Build a new platform from first principles — data model, API design, and infrastructure — rather than maintaining legacy systems, while making pragmatic decisions that hold up at production scale.
- Design and implement a schema-first GraphQL API (Apollo Server) over PostgreSQL, including multi-tenant data isolation (row-level security), type-safe query layers, and performance patterns like DataLoader batching.
- Develop React/TypeScript (Next.js) interfaces used by both internal teams and clients to manage catalogs, registrations, and data-quality workflows.
- Build AI-native features as a core part of the product: AI-assisted data ingestion and matching, agent-accessible APIs via Model Context Protocol (MCP), and LLM-powered workflows using the Vercel AI SDK and Amazon Bedrock.
- Work in an AI-augmented, spec-driven development workflow — architecture specs, agent-assisted implementation, and rigorous automated review are how the team ships, not an experiment on the side.
- Own components end-to-end: design, implementation, integration testing against real databases, deployment (AWS CDK), and operational responsibility.
- Model and implement music publishing domain logic — works, writers, shares, agreements, and society registration formats (e.g., CWR) — with the precision that financial and rights data demands.

You are / have

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software development, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience developing web-based software solutions.
- Experience architecting new systems or services from scratch — you're comfortable with ambiguity, and you document the "why" behind decisions, not just the "what."
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js across the full stack.
- Solid relational database fundamentals: schema design, migrations, transactions, and query performance in PostgreSQL (or similar).
- Experience with both traditional software development lifecycle and agentic software development — including spec-driven development, AI-augmented engineering, and working effectively with coding agents.
- Interest in the music industry — prior experience with rights management, royalties, or metadata standards (CWR, DDEX, ISWC/ISRC) is a plus, not a requirement.

Ideally, significant experience with some of the following technologies or similar tools:

Backend: Node.js, GraphQL (Apollo Server, schema-first), PostgreSQL, etc.

Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, modern state management (e.g., Zustand)

AI/Agents: Vercel AI SDK, SpecKit, CodeX, Amazon Bedrock, Model Context Protocol (MCP), LLM tool design.

Infrastructure: AWS (including CDK), Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions

Testing: Vitest, Testcontainers (integration testing against real databases), Playwright

Observability: Datadog, Sentry, structured logging

## Why you want to work here

- Work at the frontier of AI-assisted engineering — agentic workflows are central to how this team builds software.
- Ample opportunities to work with leaders and employees across our business.
- Work in a collaborative environment full of mission-driven, innovative, and passionate people.
- Be a part of an open, welcoming, and inclusive culture.
- Rich benefit program (Medical, Dental, Vision), Life Insurance, 401k (with match).
- Free CitiBike Membership (NYC Only).
- Paid Volunteer Hours.

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Downtown's values. We welcome and encourage all applicants of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply.

Downtown provides base salary ranges for all positions located in the United States at the time of posting. The hiring range for this position up to $150,000 annually. As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon various factors including, but not limited to, work experience, geographic location and relevant skills. Downtown is committed to providing a comprehensive market-competitive total rewards program for its employees which includes medical, dental, and vision, life insurance, 401(k) match and generous paid time off. This range does not include any other variable compensation components.

## About Downtown Music

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Downtown Music is a modern global music company that provides publishing, distribution, artist services, and royalty collection to millions of creators and rights holders worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Private (part of Virgin Music Group)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, USA
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Justin Kalifowitz

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Music & Entertainment, Music Technology, Publishing, Distribution
- **Target customers**: B2B (record labels, publishers, managers) and B2C (independent artists, songwriters, creators) at every career stage, from amateurs to iconic performers.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build a more equitable global music industry by ensuring creators and their partners are fairly compensated, empowering them to keep creating and investing back into the world.

## Products & Services
- **Downtown Music Publishing**: Represents nearly 100 years of popular music for songwriters and catalogs including John Lennon & Yoko Ono, George Gershwin, Peso Pluma, Tori Amos, and Wu-Tang Clan. Offers global administration, creative services, and sync licensing.
- **CD Baby**: The world’s largest digital distribution platform for independent artists, distributing to Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram, YouTube, Amazon Music, and 150+ other platforms. Has distributed nearly $1 billion in earnings to artists.
- **FUGA**: A full-service music distribution company combining digital supply-chain, sales analytics, and royalty processing technology with global marketing and promotions services. A preferred plus and platinum partner of Apple Music and Spotify.
- **Songtrust**: The world’s largest global royalty collection platform for songwriters and publishers, covering more than 215 countries and territories with hundreds of thousands of users.
- **Downtown Artist & Label Services**: Offers distribution, bespoke marketing solutions, and funding to entrepreneurial artists and partners.
- **Soundrop**: A DIY distribution service for creators, featuring integrated cover song licensing, distribution to major platforms, YouTube ContentID monetization, and automated royalty splits.
- **found.ee**: An integrated marketing platform (digital agency in a box) for artists and creators to manage audience data and programmatic advertising.
- **Downtown Neighbouring Rights**: Provides neighbouring rights collection and analytics for performance royalties.
- **Downtown Music Studios**: A professional multi-room recording facility in Manhattan, known for technical innovation and used by award-winning performers and producers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company, part of Virgin Music Group)
- **Key Metric**: Services over **50 million music assets** from hundreds of countries across six continents.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Now proudly part of Virgin Music Group. Key partners include Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, TikTok, and Deezer.
- **Growth Signals**: Global presence with 600+ employees across more than 20 cities on six continents. Represents some of the most well-known songs in popular music and manages estates of iconic songwriters.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Reach**: Services over 50 million songs across 145+ countries on six continents, making it one of the largest independent music ecosystems globally.
- **Comprehensive Ecosystem**: Offers a full-stack solution from publishing and distribution to royalty collection, marketing, and neighbouring rights—all under one roof.
- **Technology & Analytics**: Uses advanced analytics, machine learning, and patented state-of-the-art signal processing to help creators protect and monetize their work.
- **Independence Focus**: Allows artists to achieve commercial success comparable to major labels without sacrificing ownership, control, or creative vision.
- **Legacy & Trust**: Represents nearly 100 years of popular music, including estates of legendary artists like John Lennon, George Gershwin, and Miles Davis.

## Strategic Focus
- **Powering Independence**: Leveling the playing field for creators with technology and partnership, helping every kind of creator reach new audiences and sustain their creative legacy.
- **Global Expansion**: Continued expansion across six continents with employees in cities like Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, New Delhi, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.
- **Innovation in Royalties**: Using technology to simplify music rights management and ensure fair compensation in the streaming era.
- **Part of Virgin Music Group**: Leveraging the resources and network of Virgin Music Group to accelerate growth and service offerings.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Work at a company reimagining the music industry to be more equitable for creators globally.
- **Global & Diverse Environment**: 600+ employees located in more than 20 cities on six continents, offering a truly international and multicultural workplace.
- **Hybrid/Remote Flexibility**: With offices in New York, Nashville, London, Los Angeles, and many other cities, the company supports a distributed workforce.
- **Impact at Scale**: Work with over 50 million music assets and some of the most iconic names in music history.
- **Career Growth**: Opportunities across multiple divisions (Publishing, Distribution, Artist Services, Royalties, Marketing, Tech) with a clear career ladder.
- **Culture**: Focus on modern, unencumbered approaches to business, advocating for creators and everyone in the business of music.

## Sources
1. [downtownmusic.com](https://downtownmusic.com/about/)
2. [downtownmusic.com](https://downtownmusic.com/leadership/)
3. [downtownmusic.com](https://downtownmusic.com/services/)
4. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/downtownmusic)

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