Senior Full Stack Engineer | Music Tech

About Splash

At Splash, our mission is to make music creation accessible for everyone. Since 2017, we’ve been pioneering the intersection of artificial intelligence and music, creating tools that empower young creators and music enthusiasts. Our experiences, particularly on platforms like Roblox, have inspired millions to engage with music in new ways.

Backed by leading investors such as Amazon's Alexa Fund and Khosla Ventures, we are expanding rapidly, assembling a diverse team of musicians, engineers, and creatives passionate about shaping the future of music and AI.

The Role:

We are hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to work alongside our CTO, Head of Music and team of Engineers to contribute to existing music creation tools and new features for our web app music remix tool. Our small team brings together cutting edge research on music tooling, speech synthesis and generative modeling to create powerful tools for young creators and music enthusiasts. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team and help create new and innovative ways for users to create music.

• Architect, build, and scale full-stack applications, ensuring seamless integration between frontend, backend, and cloud services.
• Lead AWS best practices within the team, helping improve infrastructure, security, and scalability while mentoring others on AWS capabilities.
• Design and develop cloud-native architectures using AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, etc.), ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
• Leverage AWS tooling (CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, AWS CodePipeline, CloudWatch, etc.) to automate infrastructure management, deployment, and monitoring.
• Work closely with our small team of engineers to ensure smooth communication between backend services and client-facing applications, taking on front-end tickets where applicable.
• Support and enhance ML-driven applications, deploying and managing ML models in production using AWS services such as SageMaker, Bedrock, or other ML-related tooling.
• Implement DevOps practices, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and deployment automation for a smooth development lifecycle.
• Enhance security and compliance, ensuring best practices in access control, encryption, and data protection across AWS services.
• Optimize application performance, debugging, refactoring, and improving system efficiency at both the application and infrastructure levels.
• Foster a culture of learning and knowledge-sharing, guiding teammates on AWS tools, services, and architecture decisions.
• Actively participate in code reviews, providing guidance on code quality, maintainability, and best practices.

• 5+ years of experience as a Full Stack Engineer, with expertise in both backend and frontend development.
• Expert in AWS cloud services and tooling, including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK, and AWS monitoring tools. With the ability to share knowledge and set best practice within our team.
• Strong experience with microservices architectures, designing scalable, maintainable, and secure applications.
• Skilled in Python, JavaScript, or similar languages, with a solid understanding of modern frameworks and tools.
• Experience with frontend technologies such as React, TypeScript, or similar, with the ability and willingness to contribute when needed.
• Experience deploying and maintaining ML-powered applications, with exposure to AWS ML services like SageMaker, Bedrock, or integrating ML models into cloud architectures.
• Experience with DevOps and automation, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• A passion for mentoring and knowledge sharing, helping the team level up their AWS and ML expertise.
• Interest in ML and AI-driven applications, with a curiosity for how off the shelf ML models can be tailored, deployed and integrated into scalable systems.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments, with an iterative mindset and a willingness to adapt to changing requirements.
• Deep understanding of software engineering best practices, including performance optimization, security, and testing strategies.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A self-driven, proactive mindset, comfortable working in distributed teams with a strong sense of ownership.

• A background in music, play an instrument, or have a passion for all things music
• A passion for/understanding of gaming is an added bonus - our team are a mix of music lovers, creatives and gamers
• If you are based in Brisbane that's fantastic, but we have several remote team members across Australia and internationally. For this position we strongly prefer Aussie East Coast timezone

• Work alongside our CTO, CPO and CEO who together bring a wealth of knowledge from previous roles at Soundcloud, Spotify, Twitch and YouTube!
• Work with a small but powerful team backed by leading investors including Amazon’s Alexa Fund, Khosla Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures and King River Capital
• Be part of a talented and highly-dynamic team that values initiative and imagination - we also love music.
• We offer a competitive salary and remote/flexible work options. Remote opportunities available or work flexibly from our office hub in Fortitude Valley.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

Music has the incredible ability to bridge divides and bring people together, regardless of their background or identity. Like the industry we work within, diversity, equity and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We actively seek out and welcome voices from all backgrounds and believe that diverse perspectives fuel our creativity and drive success.

Application Process:

Please apply or feel free to send your resume and email to our Head of People & Culture, steph@splashmusic.com

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