Established in 2015, Create Music Group is a leading music and entertainment company. The company operates as a record label, distribution company, and entertainment network which generates over 15 billion music streams each month on DSP’s. Named #2 on the Inc 5000 Fastest Growth Companies in America in 2020, the company has grown exponentially by leveraging its owned IP with its media and technology platform. The company works with superstar artists, major and independent record labels, and global media brands. It operates a number of companies including Label Engine, one of the largest independent music distribution platforms in the world, with over 75,000 artists and 5,000 label clients; and Flighthouse, a digital entertainment brand focused on Gen Z, which has more than 300 million followers across social media. Create Music Group is based in Hollywood, CA and has 400 employees worldwide.
Job Summary
AI is reshaping how we build. As development becomes faster, the challenge shifts to making strong technical decisions, designing scalable systems, and shipping high-quality software quickly.
We’re looking for a highly hands-on Full Stack Developer who enjoys building end-to-end products, collaborating across teams, and using AI tools to accelerate development and iteration.
Responsibilities
- Drive implementation of product features and contribute to system design decisions
- Translate ambiguous problems into scalable, production-ready solutions
- Design and build backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems
- Write high-quality, production-ready code across the stack
- Collaborate effectively with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering teams to unblock progress and align on technical direction
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs across speed, scalability, and maintainability
- Improve reliability through testing, observability, and performance optimizations
- Participate actively in code reviews, both as author and reviewer
- Use AI tools to prototype, build, and debug more efficiently
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years building and shipping production applications
- Solid fundamentals in system design and backend architecture
- Experience working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
- Bias toward shipping quickly and learning from real user feedback
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across teams
- Experience integrating or building AI-powered systems or workflows is an asset
Tech Stack
- Backend: Python (FastAPI), async, SQLAlchemy, Postgres
- Event-driven systems + Redis (Streams/PubSub)
- Frontend: React + TypeScript, modern stack (Vite, Tailwind, shadcn/ui), REST and GraphQL APIs
- State/data: TanStack Query; validation (Pydantic)
- Infra: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), GCP
Bonus
- Experience with RBAC / row-level security
- Familiarity with deep event-driven or pub/sub experience
- Experience building internal tools or platforms
- Exposure to observability and performance systems
Pay Scale
- $100,000 - $130,000 (CAD) per year
- The final compensation within this range will be determined based on the candidate’s experience, skills, and overall fit for the role.
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