joeconyers

Songtrust, Full Time, Python / Django Engineer

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Songtrust provides the easiest way for songwriters to get paid royalties from the US and abroad. Created by Downtown Music Publishing (Santigold, Mötley Crüe, Mos Def) – Songtrust was recently named a top music Startup by Billboard Magazine.

The Job

We’re looking for someone to join our small team as a full time backend developer, ideally with a passion for music. Songtrust is a technology driven business and we’re focused on bringing new ideas to an old and broken industry.

Some things we use: Python / Django, AWS(ec2) + Heroku(PostgreSQL) + Rightscale, Git, JIRA, and whatever works best.

We are looking for someone with a couple of years under their belt that has put at least one significant django project into production.

Full details here: http://blog.songtrust.com/jobs/python-engineer/

To apply send a note to [email protected] with a link to your github, a resume, a web presence and/or a link to some of your projects.

We help songwriters get affiliated with a PRO(like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC), register all their songs and help them collect their royalties just like any other publisher. We also register their songs with The Harry Fox Agency(HFA) which will be collecting mechanicals from record sales and also from Youtube and Spotify. All of this you could do yourself but it's a huge pain in the neck involving a lot of paperwork and a ton of time. We like to think of it like having a professional do your taxes for you.

Soon we will be coming out with a product aimed at Bands instead of individual songwriters, which we hope will be a huge hit for the giant group of indie bands who will never get a publishing deal but will be owed publishing monies.We were spun out of a traditional publishing company called Downtown Music Publishing, we are well funded, have paying customers, and since this is HN I can’t help but plug that we are hiring folks who want to come help change get songwriters paid: (http://blog.songtrust.com/jobs/front-end-developer-ux-design...)

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Details on scholarship: http://www.pace.edu/page.cfm?doc_id=25567

Thank you!