About the role
About Genius
Genius is the leading destination for music, lyrics, and the stories behind the songs. At the intersection of music, technology, and culture, Genius connects fans with deeper meaning behind the world’s most influential music. The company has teams in Los Angeles, New York, and beyond.
Role Overview
Genius is looking for an experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer to build, maintain, and enhance features across the platform. This is a hands-on role involving both front-end and back-end development, collaboration on scalable solutions, system improvement, and product delivery. Responsibilities include database design, system architecture, and platform performance.
Working Conditions:
- Location: Beverly Hills office (131 S. Rodeo Dr., Suite 375, Beverly Hills, CA 90212).
- Requirement: Must be located in the Los Angeles area.
- Attendance: Onsite 3–4 days per week, or as needed.
Responsibilities
- Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to design and develop new features.
- Write clean, scalable, and testable code.
- Mentor and contribute to technical design discussions, architecture planning, and in-depth code reviews.
- Take ownership of deployments to Staging and Production environments.
- Participate in the on-call rotation as needed.
- Drive long-term architectural improvements and establish internal best practices and documentation standards.
- Champion a culture of engineering excellence, performance optimization, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to ensure reliable system performance, monitoring, and uptime.
- Onboard and mentor junior engineers.
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies and frameworks.
- Translate business and product requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade web applications.
- Expertise in backend frameworks: Ruby (preferred), or experience in Python, Node.js, or Django.
- Solid frontend development skills with React or Rails.
- Strong grasp of modern JavaScript practices.
- Proven track record of scaling full-stack applications in high-traffic, user-facing environments.
- Strong understanding of API design, database architecture, data modeling, and system performance tuning.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and comprehensive testing strategies.
- Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and monitoring tools such as New Relic, Datadog, or similar.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Proactive, ownership-driven mindset.
- Passion for continuous learning.
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related field is a plus (not required with equivalent hands-on experience).
Compensation
- Base salary range: $175,000–$190,000 (determined based on experience, education, relevant skills, and industry knowledge).