What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Developer (PHP/Laravel) position at Symphonic Distribution?
Symphonic Distribution is a 100% independent music distribution and marketing company headquartered in downtown Tampa, FL and with offices in Brooklyn, Nashville, Denver, and Bogota, Colombia. We focus on distributing, promoting, and developing great independent music from artists, record labels, and many more. Not only do we want to work with some great and prolific creators, we want to also work with creative, passionate, positive, and forward-thinking individuals. Maybe this is you? If so, then below you will find an opportunity to join Symphonic. As a company, we want to have an environment that is inclusive, diverse, and accepting so that everyone, regardless of their background, race, or sexual orientation, has a chance to do great things in the industries of music, tech, and marketing.
In a Nutshell //
We are looking for a Software Developer (PHP/Laravel) who has extensive experience developing in PHP using the Laravel framework and who is passionate about building high quality products to delight and empower our clients. The position will work remotely in any area of Colombia and reports to the Director of Software Development.
What you will do //
Symphonic Distribution enables content creators to fully maximize their music’s revenue and grow their global audience. The company focuses on working with: record labels, artists, managers, producers, social media influencers, and even distributors just like us to get their messages seen and heard. While our core business is to distribute music digitally and physically for the many talented creators that we have the honor of working with, we focus on a number of services, such as: Physical Distribution, User Generated Content Monetization on YouTube, Tik Tok, Triller, Instagram, Release Promotion such as Playlist pitching, marketing diagnostics, strategy and a number of other very important services to ensure that creators are maximizing and collecting on as many royalties as possible. Symphonic also showcases one of the largest partnership networks available, partnering with Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon, and many other services where music can be consumed on. Check out more about us on our website at www.symdistro.com
In a Nutshell //
We are looking for a Software Developer (PHP/Laravel) who has extensive experience developing in PHP using the Laravel framework and who is passionate about building high quality products to delight and empower our clients. The position will work remotely in any area of Colombia and reports to the Director of Software Development.
What you will do //
- Build new features for client and internal facing web applications.
- Utilize queues and workers to transcode and delivery audio and video at scale.
- Work with a cross functional team of developers, product, and QA.
- Ensure high-quality, through code reviews, automated testing, and monitoring.
- Deploy new features behind features flags in a CI/CD process.
- Contribute to retrospectives and process improvements.
- Help to manage the data and analytics in MySQL and Snowflake.
- Minimum 5 years of development experience with PHP 8 and MVC frameworks, specifically Laravel 7 or Symfony.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Expertise with SQL, schema design, and data migrations.
- Moderate experience with JavaScript and CSS.
- Experience researching and using third party APIs.
- Comfort working with a partially distributed team.
- Candidate must live in Colombia (South America).
- Experience working with feature flags in a CI/CD environment.
- More familiarity with the Laravel framework, including Scheduler and Queues or other well-known modules.
- Experience using AWS services including S3, SQS, CloudWatch, etc.
- Knowledge of XML and XSDs
- Knowledge of audio or video encoding
- Experience using AWS services, like: CloudWatch, EC2, ECS, EFS, Fargate, IAM, Lambda, RDS, S3, SQS, VPC
- Love for music
Symphonic Distribution enables content creators to fully maximize their music’s revenue and grow their global audience. The company focuses on working with: record labels, artists, managers, producers, social media influencers, and even distributors just like us to get their messages seen and heard. While our core business is to distribute music digitally and physically for the many talented creators that we have the honor of working with, we focus on a number of services, such as: Physical Distribution, User Generated Content Monetization on YouTube, Tik Tok, Triller, Instagram, Release Promotion such as Playlist pitching, marketing diagnostics, strategy and a number of other very important services to ensure that creators are maximizing and collecting on as many royalties as possible. Symphonic also showcases one of the largest partnership networks available, partnering with Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon, and many other services where music can be consumed on. Check out more about us on our website at www.symdistro.com
