About BandPage

As a Senior Software Engineer on the BandPage Javascript team, your seasoned expertise and knowledge will now tackle the challenges of a cutting-edge platform built on bleeding-edge technologies. Working alongside a senior team of engineers, you will continue to push BandPage's dedication to innovative user experiences and highly-scalable app architectures. Additionally, you will be free to leverage new libraries (i.e. Backbone.js, Underscore.js) and server-side advances (i.e. node.js) wherever you and the team deem appropriate.

You are expected to have a passion for problem-solving and proactively identify and attack potential issues. For normal engineering challenges, you are expected to take projects from start through completion with minimal supervision, as well as steer junior engineers in the right direction when necessary.

Proactively look for ways to make BandPage better!

• B.S. or higher in Computer science or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Expert Javascript/jQuery coding skills
• 5+ years of experience in field
• Rapid learner who thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrable experience building world-class, consumer web applications
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Expert HTML/CSS coding skills
• Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, cross-browser compatibility
• Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, REST) and familiarity with Unix/Linux
• Sound judgment for balancing between idealism and pragmatism
• Require minimal supervision for work tasks and guidance for development of skills and career
• Great verbal and written communication and documentation abilities

• Experience with NodeJS
• Excellent programming skills in Java, Python, PHP
• Contributor to open source projects
• Prior experience in small startup environment
• Visual-design skills
• Knowledgeable foundation in interaction design principles
• Interest in music and music technology
• Active involvement as a user of BandPage

BandPage is seeking a Senior Product Manager with exceptional intellect, creativity, and communication skill to play a leadership role in modernizing the music industry. Enable inventive new distribution and revenue models that empower hard working artists to make a living at their craft, thereby enabling them to spend more time creating and performing music rather than working as a Barista, or whatever. Work with passionate collaborators in our soulful SOMA loft space with pumping tunes and home cooked breakfasts and lunches.

The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for understanding the needs of artists, fans, and partners and conceiving and defining new products and features that align with our company’s mission and vision.

• Product Design (Top-Down) - Conceptualize and define new products and features. Collaboratively and laterally lead design, development, and go-to-market activities, taking ultimate responsibility for the popularity, utility, and commercial success of your product.
• Product Design (Bottom-Up) - Instrument, analyze, and otherwise take an empirical approach to driving user adoption and continually improving user experience.
• Cross-Functional Project Management - Formulate roadmaps, plans, and programs and systematically execute against them. Run effective meetings with clear agendas that arrive in a timely way at crisp, documented decisions.
• Strategic Thought Leadership - Contribute materially to the formulation of corporate vision, strategy, and roadmap. Craft ingenious solutions to clever product, business, and partnership problems.
• User Focus - Understand and internalize the aspirations and needs of artists, fans, and partners. Develop strong intuition and empathy for users and serve as their champion.

• Design Talent - Generative and evaluative design ability, in collaboration with others, at all levels of abstraction: software, user experience, product features/benefits, business ecosystem, etc. Ability to effectively convey vision, communicate design concepts, thoughtfully critique other designs. Excellent, modern aesthetic sensibility. Good taste.
• Technical Ability - Undergraduate degree in computer science, work experience as a software developer, or demonstrated technical understanding of basic software development principles and web and mobile technologies.
• Cognitive and Communications Skill - Highly articulate in spoken and written English, built upon an underlying fundamental clarity of thought. General cognitive ability to root out fundamental issues, wring order from chaos, synthesize elegant conceptual frameworks, and drive to clear decisions.
• Personal Maturity - Focus of building something of significance (e.g., vs. acquiring fancy titles and hierarchical reports). Willingness to roll up sleeves and do whatever it takes. Ego in check.
• Education - BA/BS in computer science, product design, or similar related field, with top academic performance from a competitive institution...or alternate life-less-ordinary overachievement in pursuit of a degree from the School of Hard Knocks.

If you had been born in 800BC you would have been a mystic. You find patterns that others don’t see. Maybe you solve disentanglement puzzles in a higher dimensional space without even knowing how you do it.

Apply your world-class analytical skill to develop world-impacting algorithms and revolutionize an industry. Design and build the large scale, real time infrastructure that you need in order to implement your vision from the ground up. Experiment with clarity and intuition to find the signals, boldly envision what is possible and work pragmatically to make it a reality. Get your hands dirty from prototyping to production.

• Ph.D. in computer science, physics, mathematics, operations research or equivalent knowledge and experience
• 6+ years of post-graduate work experience
• Demonstrated ability at applying analytical skills to real world challenges
• Solid experience with Java, Scala or C++ coding
• Expert in multiple machine learning strategies (supervised & unsupervised learning)
• Expert in data visualization and finding signal among the noise
• Expert in optimization/modeling techniques
• Previous success in a performance-critical environment
• Demonstrated ability to creatively match problems with solutions
• Rapid learner who thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Great verbal and written communication and documentation abilities

• Experience architecting data mining infrastructure
• Experience building real-time analytic systems
• Experience with Neo4j, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDb or other NoSQL data store
• Familiarity with one or more of Hadoop, Cascading, Pig, Storm, Spark or other big data framework
• Experience with GPU programming
• Prior experience in small startup environment
• Interest in music and music technology
• Active involvement as a user of BandPage

The backbone. The rock. The drummer.

Contribute your best-in-class programming skills to develop reusable tools for the management and manipulation of very large data sets. Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of data collection, storage, and retrieval processes. Optimize our infrastructure at both the software and hardware level. Focus on scaling horizontally rather than vertically. Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems. Work closely with and incorporate feedback from data scientists and other teams. Implement machine-learning algorithms.

Pro-actively look for ways to make BandPage better!

• B.S. in computer science, or equivalent knowledge and experience
• 4+ years of post-graduate work experience or a lifetime of serious extra-curricular coding
• Expert Java, Scala or C++ coding skills
• Experience with Map/Reduce development paradigm
• Familiarity with one or more of Hadoop, Cascading, Pig, Storm, Spark or other big data framework
• Experience with file systems, server architectures, and distributed systems
• Experience with large data stores
• Educational background in math, machine learning, numerical analysis or optimization
• Previous success in a performance-critical environment
• Demonstrated ability to creatively match problems with solutions
• Rapid learner who thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Great verbal and written communication and documentation abilities

• M.S. or higher in Computer science or equivalent
• Experience with data mining technologies
• Experience with real-time analytics
• Experience with Neo4j, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDb or other NoSQL data store
• Experience with GPU programming
• Contributor to open source projects
• Prior experience in small startup environment
• Interest in music and music technology
• Active involvement as a user of BandPage

You’re a talented visual designer — with an up-to-date portfolio to back this up. Your designs are innovative and enable the user to more easily understand the information presented. You live and breathe design. Your weekends are spent taking pictures, listening to new bands and getting inspired.

• Continually improve and standardize BandPage’s look and feel
• Create custom BandPages for some of the greatest bands out there
• Develop and adhere to style guideline principles for our corporate site and for the BandPage product
• Actively participates and help drive the creative process by presenting thorough and well-developed recommendations to meet the given objectives
• Prior success in a fast-paced environment where short timetables and some unpredictability is the norm
• Able to collaborate with product managers and the business team. You are able to effectively incorporate other stakeholders’ ideas into the product lifecycle when it is the best interest of the product

• At least 7 years of experience in visual design in the software industry
• Extraordinary product, interaction, and visual design talent
• Interest in music and music technology (seriously this is required)
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator
• A working knowledge of Adobe Flash, After Effects, CSS and HTML
• Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, cross-browser compatibility
• You understand the challenges and restrictions when it comes to UX deliverables, including guidelines, wireframes and specifications
• Supreme attention to detail and a demonstrated mastery of typography, color, and page layout
• Prior experience with designing consumer social products

• Experience with usability testing and data-driven design.
• Have produced at least one project on an agile team
• Experience working on an editor (audio, video, image)
• Familiarity with JavaScript
• Prior experience in small startup environment
• Active involvement as a user of BandPage

(or Manager or Creative Director)

BandPage is seeking an experienced user interface designer with exceptional creativity and communication skill to help modernize the music industry. Design web and mobile apps that enable inventive new distribution and revenue models. Empower hard working artists to make a living at their craft, thereby enabling them to spend more time creating and performing music rather than blending frappuccinos at Starbucks (no offense).

The designer will be responsible for designing user experiences (interaction/flow and visual) for new web and mobile products and features, working in close collaboration with passionate product managers and engineers in our stylish SOMA loft space with pumping tunes and home cooked breakfasts and lunches.

• Interaction Design - Imagine, communicate, and iteratively improve useful and highly intuitive human-computer interactions, expressing them as wireframes, flow diagrams, information hierarchies, etc. Basic understanding of designing for web and mobile, including limitations and design consequences of HTML/CSS and Javascript.
• Visual Design - Building upon rough wireframes, produce beautiful, polished, high fidelity graphic designs for BandPage products and features. Utilize layout, color, fonts, and motion to convey affordance, communicate semantics, and transmit information hierarchy, thereby maximizing the usability of the product. Produce original illustrations. Preference for clean, modern, minimal design aesthetic--but with soul and a bit of rebellious edge.
• Marketing Creative - We are a small company, so our Design team also spends ~10% time supporting the marketing function. For example, you might occasionally be asked to help design our corporate website, produce external videos, design display ads, shoot original photos, etc.
• User Research - Design and administer user research and usability tests, utilizing a variety of techniques, qualitative and quantitative, structured and ad hoc.

• Creative Leadership - Provide exceptional thought leadership in all facets of design (e.g., interaction, visual, etc.). Coach and develop a team of designer, helping them to grow individually and as a team.
• Management - Operationally supervise a team of designers, prioritizing and managing a queue of design projects. Contribute to the design and continual improvement of an end-to-end product development process. Hire, evaluate, and develop a team of world class designers.

• Design Talent - Digital portfolio containing a significant corpus of high quality user interface designs.
• Cognitive and Communications Skill - Highly articulate in spoken and written English, built upon an underlying fundamental clarity of thought. General ability to synthesize simple, elegant, minimal designs for complex tasks.
• Rapid Prototyping - Ability to produce static and interactive mocks, for use in communicating or testing UI designs. Ideally, candidate can rapidly generate simple interactive prototypes in HTML/CSS, and Javascript.
• Personal Maturity - Cognitive focus on building something of significance (e.g., vs. acquiring fancy titles and accumulatinghierarchical reports). Willingness to roll up sleeves and do whatever it takes. Ego in check.
• Education - BA/BS/BFA in art, product design, human-computer interaction, computer science or similar creative field preferred. Extra credit for working your ass off in high school and getting into a highly competitive school and/or strong academic performance in school.

As Quality Assurance Manager at BandPage, you’ll oversee a small team of QA Engineers and Testers, working to constantly raise the quality bar on an array of technology products, including our public APIs, our website, and forthcoming mobile products. Through your experience with people and task management, tools for authoring, executing, and tracking tests and their results, you’ll increase our testing efficiency and accuracy, and make sure we ship great software, in an agile development environment. We aim to delight our customers, and want you to drive us achieve that goal!

• Manage a small team of QA Engineers and QA Testers, assigning work day-to-day, as well as setting long term strategy & goals for the team and its individual members
• Work with engineering and product leads to assess needs and deliver results
• Recruit talent to grow the team over time
• Develop and execute upon manual and automated testing strategies in an agile environment
• Oversee testing of public APIs, a consumer-facing website, and mobile offerings
• Establish and enact approaches for QA on our large data corpus, including anomaly detection
• Document results of testing; communicate these to engineering and other stakeholders
• Working with the VP of Engineering, choose or build the right tools for all of the above
• Dive in to do some amount of testing yourself; get your hands dirty in this hands-on role
• Help to calibrate and then maintain the company’s quality bar: be a voice for excellent user and developer experience with our products, while balancing the need to be aggressive and meet deadlines

• Min. 5 years of professional experience as a QA Lead or QA Manager in startups
• Prior experience as QA Engineer or QA Tester
• Comprehensive knowledge of tools and processes used to test websites, APIs, and/or mobile products, including automation of that testing, including hands-on experience with tools such as cucumber, rspec, Selenium, and/or Watir.
• Excellent communication skills, written and otherwise
• Highly organized, analytical, detail-oriented, and able to prioritize competing work
• Bonus points for significant prior programming experience, especially in languages typically used to automate testing

• Actively participate in all aspects of the development cycle, including requirements, technical specifications, system level and API level designs, implementation, release, and maintenance
• Assist in defining and documenting the QA processes and procedures
• Design test strategy and criteria defining user story acceptance
• Writing test automation scripts
• Perform the test execution for assigned stories/features according to acceptance criteria and using own initiative, retaining accountability for software tested
• Participates in daily team meetings to be aware of ongoing activity and ensure testing coverage
• Sign-off on the quality of the new builds before releases
• Immediately log and communicate issues found during testing and the ability to assess the severity of the issue
• Act as a gatekeeper for software quality, ensuring only highest quality code makes it to production

• A solid background in investigative software quality assurance testing, including the ability to integrate QA into projects from the design and planning phase
• Full lifecycle QA experience – in this role you will design test cases, execute both manual and automated testing, analyze the results, report and track defects, and ultimately make decisions on test completion
• Ability to work in an Agile development environment (preferably Scrum)
• Prior experience working for a web startup
• A disciplined, deadline driven approach, strong attention to detail, and ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Experience testing Web applications written in a multitude of languages such as Java, PHP, JavaScript
• Strong problem solving, troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Excellent organization, writing, communication and interpersonal skills, and highly self-motivated
• Sound judgment for balancing between idealism and pragmatism
• Require minimal supervision for work tasks and guidance for development of skills and career

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years relevant experience with a focus on Rich Internet Applications
• Experience with mobile testing
• Hands on experience with Selenium, Fitness or similar automation framework experience
• Proficiency in at least one common scripting language (Ruby, Python, Shell)
• Proficiency in MySQL queries and relational databases
• A good solid understanding on technologies such as Java application servers, SCM tools, and continuous integration server
• Deep understanding of browser testing methodology, including tools like HttpWatch, Firebug, Wireshark, Charles
• Experience with risk management techniques and their application to QA
• Experiences with localization, penetration and backend testing are highly desirable
• Evangelize Quality throughout the organization
• Hands on experience with an automated testing facility within a mobile framework (TestQuest, Robotium, etc..) is a plus
• Experience with testing/administering staging servers in the cloud (such as Amazon EC2) desired
• A plus if you are a musician already using BandPage