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Muse Group

Senior Backend Developer

Muse Group, Winona, Minnesota, United States, 55987

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Muse Group empowers music makers. We create the world’s most popular apps for playing, recording, and composing music. Through our innovative learning tools, expansive music catalogs, and free open-source software, we make it easier for millions — from beginners to experienced musicians — to be creative every day. Our talented team of music lovers collaborates all over the globe, from Limassol to Seoul, Boston to Berlin. We’re an ambitious company with the drive and culture of a startup — with many more exciting Muse Group developments to come.

We’re growing the Sheet Music Plus team and looking for a Backend Developer to build a dynamic, powerful ecosystem that empowers millions of creators worldwide through the world’s largest sheet music selection.

Sheet Music Plus is a physical and digital sheet music store selling over 2.2 million licensed sheet music titles.

You won't hear water cooler chat about the weather here at Muse, here we are rating our favorite Prince albums and discussing Japanese punk.

What’s in it for you?

High-impact work : Build tools used by millions of musicians globally—from hobbyists to professionals.

Remote-first culture : Work from anywhere.

Growth & autonomy : Work directly with product and design teams, own your results.

Creative synergy : Collaborate with passionate technologists, musicians, and designers in a mission-driven environment.

Musical passion encouraged : If you play, sing, compose, or just love music—this is your place.

Key Responsibilities

Developing new features for product ecosystem and e-commerce projects

Debugging and resolving technical issues

Writing unit and integrational tests

Deal with technical debt and improve the current codebase

Required Experience

Extensive experience with modern PHP (we use PHP 8.0), with the ability to leverage the strengths of the language

Ability to design and optimize relational databases (we use MySQL)

Experience working with Yii2

Experience with high-load projects that have a long development history

Experience working with search systems (Elasticsearch)

Capability to manage projects independently, from design to release and support

Skill in estimating deadlines, promptly flagging issues, and focusing on results

Understanding of which tasks can be solved “quickly” and which require a more “perfect” solution

Experience in optimizing PHP applications under load

Proven ownership mindset—taking initiative, solving problems proactively, and driving solutions forward

At least B2 level of English

Ability to work overlapping hours with US colleagues is required (till 12 pm EDT)

Nice to have

Experience sending analytical data to services/storage (Clickhouse)

Music background or passion for music

Hiring process

HR Interview

1st Technical Interview

2nd Technical Interview

Final Interview with the Hiring Team

Reference check

Offer

Benefits

Freedom for All

Creativity Every Day

Impactful Work

Get a generous allowance for work equipment and co-working spaces (for those not in Cyprus).

Growth and development: Receive specialized training, language lessons, conferences and learning materials.

Access to therapy whenever you need it, and assistance in difficult life circumstances.

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