Full-Stack Engineer (Backend-Leaning) - CoreMusic

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Full-Stack Engineer (Backend-Leaning) – CoreMusic based in Canada. Join a high-impact engineering team building innovative AI-powered music and audio experiences for creators, developers, and businesses worldwide. As a backend-leaning Full-Stack Engineer, you will help transform cutting-edge music research into reliable production systems, APIs, and creative tools. You will collaborate closely with research engineers to integrate evolving AI models while building scalable infrastructure and intuitive user-facing features. Working in a fast-paced, remote-first environment, you will take ownership of projects from early discovery and technical design through deployment and launch. You will also partner with cross-functional teams to identify customer needs, evaluate technical trade-offs, and deliver impactful product improvements. This role offers the opportunity to combine engineering excellence, product thinking, and a genuine passion for music and AI to shape the future of creative technology. Accountabilities: - Backend Development and API Engineering: Design, build, deploy, and maintain production-ready APIs and backend systems that power AI-driven music generation, sound effects, and audio processing capabilities. - AI Model Integration: Collaborate with research scientists and research engineers to bring new model capabilities into production, ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and adaptable to future model improvements. - Full-Stack Product Development: Contribute across the technology stack, developing backend infrastructure and user-facing features that support seamless creative workflows and improve the overall product experience.

- Technical Ownership and Delivery: Take projects from initial concept to production, translating ambiguous objectives into clear technical plans, evaluating trade-offs, and delivering solutions with minimal supervision. - Product Strategy and Prioritization: Work closely with go-to-market and other business teams to identify customer needs, prioritize features, and determine which product improvements will deliver the greatest impact, including tailored solutions for enterprise customers. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with research, legal, safety, growth, and design teams to address technical, operational, and regulatory considerations throughout the product development lifecycle. - Customer Engagement: Participate in technical customer conversations when needed, helping clarify requirements, resolve complex questions, and identify opportunities to improve products and services. - Scalable System Architecture: Design flexible infrastructure that accommodates evolving AI models and emerging capabilities while maintaining performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability. - Continuous Innovation: Experiment with new ideas, explore emerging AI and music technologies, and turn promising prototypes into practical, production-ready solutions. Requirements: - Full-Stack Engineering Experience: Strong experience as a Full-Stack Engineer with a backend focus, including a proven track record of building, deploying, and maintaining production APIs and backend systems. - Product-Oriented Thinking: Ability to break down ambiguous business or product objectives into actionable engineering plans, assess trade-offs, and deliver effective solutions without unnecessary delays. - End-to-End Ownership: A proactive, independent working style, with the ability to identify opportunities, define priorities, and drive projects from conception to launch without relying on detailed task assignments. - Cross-Functional Communication: Comfortable collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across research, legal, safety, growth, design, and commercial functions, as well as engaging directly with enterprise customers when necessary.