Tech Lead - Alfred Music

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Join Alfred Music as Tech Lead for Alfred’s Digital Initiative, focused on automating core business processes in the music publishing space, ultimately fully owning a single-stream content production pipeline by maintaining existing systems, re-architecting processes, and creating brand new services to support the long-term vision. Work in collaboration with Alfred Music’s parent company, Peaksware Holdings, to define short-term incremental deliverables and long-term strategy and to execute within our culture of engineering excellence.

Who You Are

You are a highly experienced software engineer who has been in a variety of roles, from individual contributor to technical leadership, and desires close connection to the business. You have the desire, experience, and skills to interface with many levels of leadership across the entire organization to seek out the problem to solve. You’ve been there, done that and are able to quickly hone in on incremental solutions to the problem using modern engineering practices, while creating a long-term technology strategy that supports the business vision.

As Tech Lead for a new strategic initiative, you will contribute to building functionality and driving improvements in technology and development processes. You may eventually have the opportunity to establish a self-directed cross functional team as the initiative expands.

What You Will Be Doing

You will be the senior (and first) engineer on a brand new initiative and team seeking to understand the business problem and, in collaboration with Peaksware technical leadership, create an execution strategy. Initially, you will be delivering pragmatic, incremental improvements to existing business processes, learning to own, maintain, and enhance existing systems. As you get to know the business and the technologies, we look to you to own the broader system, strategically refactoring some systems, deprecating others, and creating entirely new services. We eventually envision building a team around your leadership as the long-term vision becomes clearer.

As Tech Lead, you'll have the opportunity to:

  • Work with business stakeholders of all levels to observe the current business processes, seeking to understand the problem(s), existing solutions, and systems.
  • Take ownership of existing technical systems and start delivering continuous, incremental enhancements in the form of improved automation, bug fixes, and new features.
  • Work with Peaksware technical leadership to start establishing a technology strategy for Alfred’s Content Creation services.
  • Utilize your technical background and strategic mindset to guide systems engineering efforts and understand how small changes in one area may impact other areas.
  • Always keep value to the customer, business, and team in mind as a central part of your approach and decision making process.
  • Understand the complex, human nature of our work. You handle this ambiguity and turn it into cohesive action based on a mindset of “knowing what needs to be done” through initiative, grit, and genuine care for the people around you.

Technologies currently used:

  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • IBM DB2
  • Microsoft.NET
  • AWS

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To be successful in this position, you possess: 

  • Minimum 8+ years of experience writing and delivering multiple operational, production systems
  • Deep expertise in (or mastery of) at least one modern programming language used for distributed systems / web development (C#, Scala, Java, PHP, Go, etc.)
  • Broad and deep understanding of modern software technologies
  • Knowledge of multiple programming paradigms such as OOP, Functional, etc.
  • Experience with scripting languages such as Python
  • Strong CI/CD experience and desire to automate build environments, deployment tools, and processes
  • Deep tactical and strategic skills related to architecture, infrastructure, operations, best practices, and processes
  • Self-motivated with a strong passion to learn and grow your craft in software engineering
  • Bachelor’s degree in CS or Engineering OR comparable work experience AND coursework/education

Ideally, you also possess: 

  • Previously performed significant, large-scale system refactors.
  • Technical team lead experience.
  • Experience with success and failure: has a deep “gut feel” of right vs wrong vs grey-area and can substantiate that feeling.
  • Focus on servant leadership, with the ability to influence without direct reporting lines through collaboration and leading by example.

Our Philosophy

Within Peaksware’s culture of engineering excellence we strive for strong customer and business focus, self-managed teams, and very high standards for engineering best practices. Our engineers share a passion for development, learning, self-improvement and technology. We have a flat and transparent culture and strive for continuous learning whether through personal development time, lunch ‘n learns, an education budget, and a general mindset that the only sustainable competitive advantage is a business’ rate of learning.

Our technology choices are pragmatic yet we push the boundaries where appropriate. We believe in using the right tool for the job, enabling developers to make local decisions that align with the vision and our best practices. We strongly believe in and support refactoring and addressing technical debt, enabling developers to find a healthy balance - while continuously delivering business value. We’re heavily invested in AWS and strive to further automate both infrastructure and CI/CD processes, and look to software engineers to take ownership and to push those boundaries just as much as SREs or SysAdmins would.

Benefits and Perks Include:

  • Company subsidized medical, dental and vision insurance for employees and their dependents
  • $600/year fitness reimbursement to purchase any items related to healthy living
  • 3 weeks of PTO for all new hires...increases in PTO at various years of service
  • 4 week paid sabbatical for all employees after 7 years of employment
  • 401(k) 5% match
  • Stocked kitchen with snacks and drinks
  • Dog friendly office
  • Music Studio for all to practice, jam, and record
  • On-site workout area access: treadmill, bike trainers, rowers, and full weight lifting gym with CrossFit equipment, with changing rooms and showers and towel service
  • Corporate discounts on gym memberships and top-brand gear
  • Beautiful North East Boulder, CO location
  • Flexible work schedule in a culture of trust

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About Us

Alfred Music’s passion is supporting music education with a focus on publishing quality methods, performance, and reference materials for teachers, students, and professionals, spanning every musical instrument, style, and difficulty level. Since 1922, Alfred Music has been a world leader in music education and has helped over 10 million individuals learn, teach, and play music through our pedagogically sound products. We currently have over 150,000 active titles and represent a wide range of well-known publications—from methods like Alfred’s Basic Guitar, Alfred’s Basic Piano Library, Premier Piano Course, Sound Innovations, and Suzuki, to artists like Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, to brands like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Wizard of Oz, Rolling Stone magazine, and Billboard.

In 2016, Alfred Music joined the Peaksware Holdings portfolio of companies which includes MakeMusic (SmartMusic & Finale), bringing together the leaders in educational music publishing and music technology. Alfred is now paired with MakeMusic to transform how music is composed, published, taught, learned, and performed.

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Location

Our newly opened Louisville, CO office is located near Highway 36 and McCaslin Blvd. This convenient location allows easy access whether you're commuting from Denver, Boulder, or Northern CO. The area boasts great restaurant and shopping options, as well as miles of trails to get out and explore!

An Insider's view of Peaksware

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

Small cross-functional teams form to tackle projects and initiatives. By working together with different teams and experiences, not only can we divide the work across included departments, it also allows us to look at a problem through multiple lenses. This approach helps to ensure that our solution is well suited for the needs we intend to address

Andrew

Manager, Data Analytics & Insights

What are some things you learned at the company?

One of the larger challenges our accounting team is trying to solve is streamlining the overall financial ecosystem by implementing consistent processes, policies and procedures among all brands. It's an exciting challenge to solve, incorporating larger projects within our day to day accounting tasks and responsibilities.

Jessica

Corporate Controller

How do you make yourself accessible to the rest of the team?

Working in CA with a team in CO, one would think our distance puts a strain on accessibility, but with the amount of communication channels we have, being available to the team is second nature. Peaksware is centered on trust and accountability. Through this model, accessibility and collaboration is seamless regardless of the distance.

Kiana

Human Resources Manager

What are Peaksware Perks + Benefits

Peaksware Benefits Overview

We are proud to offer a well-rounded, comprehensive benefits package with fun perks to boot like an onsite gym, onsite music studio, quarterly events, and more.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
We partner with Adopt-A-County Road in Boulder, CO where we maintain a stretch of road by doing organized clean-ups twice a year.
Partners with nonprofits
We partner with Community FoodShare as well as the Longmont Humane society to help raise money around the holidays.
Open door policy
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Peaksware's Flexible First Program allows employees to choose from 3 flexible work strategies (RemoteFlex, HomeFlex, and OfficeFlex), based on which strategy best supports the way you like to work.
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Instead of watching a video, Peaksware hosts live trainings with subject matter experts on topics such as Unconscious Bias. It's a great way to learn and engage with your colleagues!
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Peaksware's Talent Acquisition has invested time & money learning best practices about diversity sourcing and hiring to meet our team's needs. 2 members are Certified Diversity Sourcing Professionals.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
To help employees cover any deductibles, copays & out of pocket medical, dental, or vision expenses, employees are able to set aside pre-tax contributions of up to $2,850 annually (for CY 2022).
Disability insurance
Peaksware's disability insurance benefit is 60% of base monthly salary up to a $7,500 maximum monthly payout. Employees can opt into Short-Term and/or Long-Term insurance options to suite their needs.
Dental insurance
Peaksware utilizes Guardian as the plan administrator and network provider for our dental plans. There are two types of coverage available, the Value and NAP option.
Vision insurance
Peaksware utilizes Guardian as the plan administrator with two network options. Employees can choose either the Vision Service Plan (VSP) or Davis Network. You have the freedom to choose any provider.
Health insurance
If you are an active, regular full-time or part-time employee scheduled to work a minimum of 24 hours per week, you are eligible to enroll in the Company's benefit programs.
Life insurance
For your peace of mind, Peaksware provides Basic Life and AD&D insurance through Guardian for all benefits-eligible employees at no cost. Voluntary insurance is available for purchase at minimal cost.
Pet insurance
Peaksware offers Pet Insurance through Nationwide. Employees are able to choose from three levels of coverage with My Pet Protection so you can choose the level of coverage that fits your needs.
Wellness programs
Peaksware offers additional voluntary benefits such as Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, and Hospital Indemnity. We also offer Teledoc so you can get well with virtual care options.
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Peaksware offers an Employee Assistance Program. The Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP provides you and your family members with confidential, personal, and web-based support on a wide variety of topics.
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
The Peaksware 401(k), plan administered by Empower, offers both traditional & Roth investment options which are deducted from paychecks either on a pre- or post-tax basis, up to the annual IRS limit.
401(K) matching
Peaksware will match payroll contributions up to 5%.
Performance bonus
Our compensation philosophy aims to create fair and competitive salary ranges across all brands. Our rewards program seeks to incentivize high performing individuals who have grown within their role.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide 4 weeks of parental leave for primary and secondary caretakers.
Family medical leave
We provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to eligible employees.
Company sponsored family events
Peaksware's annual holiday party includes spouses and partners to celebrate with employees.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid holidays
Full-time employees receive paid holiday leave for any company-observed holidays.
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
We host annual outings, including our holiday parties, summer family picnics, and onsite field day. What can we say...we have a lot of fun together, both in and out of the office!
Free snacks and drinks
Healthy (and less healthy) snacks can always be found in any of our kitchen areas.
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Our Louisville-based offers ample parking for all employees.
Recreational clubs
Peaksware sponsors a coed softball league each summer.
Relocation assistance
Dependent upon the role and level, we offer varying amounts of financial assistance to new hires relocating to the area to cover moving and travel expenses, along with sharing local housing referrals.
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
In addition to company-provided learning and development opportunities, the business also invests in job-specific training opportunities that heighten an employee's understanding in their role.
Lunch and learns
We host lunch and learn meetings regularly on various topics.
Promote from within
Continuing education available during work hours
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

Not only do you contribute daily to making incredible products for end-users, but you can use them for free yourself; employees have access to free accounts from all of our brands.

Employees also have access to the Performance and Recovery Center (PARC), our onsite fitness facility which includes access to onsite private gender-neutral locker rooms and showers. Love commuting by bike? We have you covered with employee only access to secure, indoor bike storage. We also have a couple e-bikes if you'd like to get out for some mid-day fresh air.

If music is your passion, you'll have to check out our onsite Music Studio. Not musically inclined? Come support your wonderfully musically talented colleagues at the Live at 285 Open Mic nights, hosted in our beautiful onsite cafe that includes indoor and outdoor seating and lounge areas. It's a great spot to grab a drink (alcoholic or not) after a day in the office.

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