Lead Software Engineer

Molten Cloud is revolutionizing how the media industry manages its most critical operations. Our cloud platform empowers studios, broadcasters, distributors, streamers, and other media businesses to modernize outdated systems for rights, royalties, and content operations. With a modular approach and a global multi-cloud infrastructure, Molten Cloud enables customers to scale faster, operate more efficiently, and unlock new revenue streams, while paying only for the tools they need.

We partner with some of the world's leading media companies, including Mubi, Radial Entertainment, Angel Studios, Black Bear Pictures, Highland Films, Electric Entertainment, and many others across six continents. Founded at MIT, Molten Cloud is committed to breaking the barriers that hold digital creativity and media experiences back today. We are a diverse team of hackers, hustlers, and hipsters, and are backed by top-tier venture funds and investors, including Jack Dorsey, Ashton Kutcher, and Michael Ovitz. (
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As a Lead Software Engineer
at MOLTEN, you will join our product team in the following areas:

• Lead the development of select modules - meet users, define requirements, improve and optimize the user experience, build, deploy and iterate in Agile sprints
• Contribute to the design, architecture, research of MOLTEN's core platform (which may include aspects of data transmission, security, back-end and front-end development)
• Test accuracy, performance and scalability to deploy robust systems for global user groups
• Collaborate with the business development team to best articulate the value proposition of product features to MOLTEN's users, and with our technology partners to design and integrate broader solutions
• Work directly with the Chief Product Owner to align engineering objectives with the product vision and roadmap
• Build project teams with other engineers, plan and lead sprints
• Train, coach and mentor engineers on the team

Technical skill set:
you are expected to have
5 to 8 years
of hands-on software engineering experience, developing web-based products, with expertise in Python and Javascript. You should be comfortable with Agile development and continuous delivery. Experience with MongoDB, , Pinia, Typescript, AI/LLMs and devops tools is a strength.

As an ideal fit for this role
, you are:

• Analytical:
  you have a rigorous academic background in computer science, and a proven ability to think original, learn new skills and innovate to solve difficult problems.
• Entrepreneurial:
  you thrive in the startup environment, you take ownership of your work, can place yourself in the mindset of a user to create elegant solutions, and you can build teams around a shared vision
• Team-player:
  you recognize that your success lies in the success of the team, you take initiatives to continuously improve collaboration, productivity and performance of the team
• Goal-oriented
  :
  when things seem to get overwhelming for most people, you have the demonstrated ability to put things in perspective, prioritize, and deliver results
• Evolutionary:
  you believe in equipping yourself with data and tools to constantly measure and improve. You are comfortable architecting changes on the order of days to months in the future, both in technical processes and in your personal growth.

Our culture: is about being rigorous at work and celebrating our big and small wins as a team. At MOLTEN, you will have the opportunity to own and lead your own workstreams, learn from exceptional individuals on the team, and help build technology that matters across the world. From day one, every developer is given the power, support, and trust to deploy production code.

If you want to join us, send us a note at with your resume and/or Github. We will no longer accept applications after 10/16.