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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 welc