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About the Company(musicxray.com)
Come join an exciting and fast paced team that is revolutionizing the way that music artists ‘get found’. At Music Xray we deliver an ecosystem that is unique in the industry since it provides the best connection between music artists and their opportunities to make it big while also providing the tools needed for music industry professionals to find new quality music. In this ecosystem new and existing music artists are able showcase not only their music, but also their popularity on social networks, videos that they may have, fan feedback, vital information about them or their band, peer to peer trade counts of their music and much more. All of this is provided for free so that these artists can easily connect with opportunities in the music industry through a submission system that is becoming second to none. Simply put, Music Xray is a platform that enables most facets of the recorded music industry to operate efficiently and transparently and you will want to be part of this team as we continue to grow.

Additional information about the technology:
Artists upload their songs to Music Xray and their songs are easily transformed into a widget-like stack of customizable modules (Music Xray Song Application) that not only streams the song’s audio but also enables the artist to display (or view privately) other important data about the song such as lyrics, artist bio information, a video, license information and songwriter notes. In addition, artists can track their songs’ market potential in the form of blog and Twitter mentions, peer to peer traders and an artists’ traction on MySpace. The company will offer additional services for a fee.

The platform also provides a place where artists can submit their songs to the music industry for consideration. Industry professionals are invited / recruited by the company (and are able to sign themselves up) and can charge a submission fee in exchange for promising to consider a song or even to provide feedback and career coaching to artists. No other company or website offers the level of direct interaction between artists and industry professionals as does Music Xray, making it a very attractive site for artists to upload, display and submit their music.

In addition to the information gathered about a song, each song is analyzed by acoustic analysis technology (licensed by the company). This technology enables Music Xray to know which songs sound like other songs without having to actually listen to them all.

Location
Ability to commute to the North Shore of Boston.

Key Responsibilities
As a web application engineer, you will be responsible for design, development and deployment of highly available and scalable, state of the art web applications and databases serving music and other types of media. The ideal candidate will feel comfortable sharing ideas related to programming and coding best practices. They must also feel comfortable working in a small team environment and be capable of making decisions on their own when necessary. We are looking for an experienced developer

Responsibilities
• Maintain and develop existing applications
• Maintain and extend the current database including performance tuning and optimization
• Review current application stack and provide feedback on areas of improvement and design

Necessary Experience
• 1+ years experience developing ruby on rails application
• 3+ years experience developing web based applications
• Experience with BDD and TDD including cucumber, webrat, and shoulda
• Knowledge of object oriented javascript development using prototype
• Familiarity with MySQL and Memcached is a huge plus
• Familiarity with amazon web services

Other Desirable Experience

• Flash, Flex, and Actionscript would be nice to have but are not necessary.
• Experience with open-source web servers (Apache, Nginx, Mongrel, Phusion/Modrails)
• Experience in handling multiple concurrent projects developing total solutions and interacting with other key business functions within the organization.
• Experience in measuring/optimizing application performance, overall application quality & health
• Experience with established software development methodologies, including Agile (SCRUM, XP, etc.).
• Knowledge of scalability issues common to highly trafficked websites.
• Strong background in a variety of technologies and best practices in software development.
• Experience in interacting with QA team

Education
Bachelors degree in electric engineering or computer science.