Myxt

The next creator-first music service

CURRENTLY 4-5 EMPLOYEES • 3-4 ENGINEERS • $2M FUNDING • PRE-SERIES A

We’re a small team of 4 (maybe 5 when you read this) who are attempting to make a big music service. Myxt is building an application and suite for managing music files, workflow, listening, reviewing, payment, sharing, and annotation for digital creators and their collaborators and close-knit fans.

We’re building a product that will broaden access to great tools that anyone can use for personal expression and collaboration. Our work can influence how people make and share art they’ve spent hundreds, perhaps thousands, of hours to craft. As a result we’re a team who are as enthusiastic about carefully shaping how and when people share their work as addressing challenges of product scale and usefulness.

Why join us?

Experience. Our team started and developed very successful, popular software projects. Among us we started Google Reader and helped build the early success of companies like Stripe and Twitter. We’re ready to start another project with the same scope of impact.

Investor support. We have runway to fully test our ideas thanks to investment from established Silicon Valley investors (e.g. Accel Ventures) who got involved due to belief in our abilities and our plan.

One of the most fun fields to work within. We’re working in a fun, creative field that could positively change how audio everywhere is created and enjoyed. If you join, you’ll be working to support rappers, composers, singers, producers, beat-makers, teachers, and anyone who lives to make a sound.

Engineering team and processes

We’re a small engineering team covering everything from data processing to frontend and working off of semi-weekly releases. Design is communal, though often led by the person proposing some change. Everyone in the company helps test releases, acting as company-wide QA. All engineering projects are maintained within Github’s issues tracker. When the team size grows we’ll be using pull requests both for reviews and to manage code updates. Every engineer can lead a project, especially if it reflects a strong desire and capability.

Technical Challenges

Quickly processing and streaming audio

In creator tools, convenience and speed are the first measure of a product’s usefulness. Myxt’s appeal will depend on its ability to manage audio quickly so that using our service is always an improvement over using an assemblage of scattered tools. The time-to-first-listen is extremely important and needs to be as short as possible while bulk file importing needs to be fast enough to keep workflows from having task bottlenecks.

Managing large-scale activity in groups

Myxt has multiple fan-out challenges as our group experiences grow. To name a few: we need to reasonably guarantee asynchronous message delivery, provide uninterrupted streaming of a single audio source to many clients, and provide that same streaming and message experience to multiple groups simultaneously.

An excellent user-friendly experience while streaming

Achieving this is difficult. Even in the best of circumstances a good user experience is hard to make and only results from many different disciplines iterating together based on research and feedback. But additionally, Myxt will need to carefully manage client resources to allow for uninterrupted streaming while editing, commenting, or annotating. Utilizing good thread or worker management may be crucial to keeping the application experience from stuttering or halting while playing (or importing) audio.

Projects you might work on

The best clips for sharing

Implementing new sharing experiences for existing social media (e.g. Discord, Twitch) such that an audio post or story has better player features or visualizations.

Smart audio groups

Expanding Myxt’s audio processing to do audio classification while also taking security into consideration and finding ways for audio creators and managers to have smart playlists, or auto-generated rooms.

The world’s best lyrics editor

Building a lyrics scroller and editor that acknowledges the current offerings and experiences in modern streaming apps but improves on the visual result. We’ll have to make this work fast and seamlessly on both our mobile app, too.

Within a couple of months you will…

• Be working quickly in our codebase with guidance. (Total amount of code is still small, for now.)
• Have shipped a few bug fixes and features across our codebase!
• Have contributed materially to both the experience strategy and decisions regarding product direction. (Because it's early.)

Tech stack

Typescript, Solid JS, Flutter, GraphQL, Hasura, ffmpeg, Firebase, PostgreSQL, Dart, and more

Qualifications

• You have experience with product development for consumer applications, preferably using Typescript or Dart
• You have experience leading critical projects or initiatives within your team
• You've worked on larger, complex codebases
• You're product minded and user driven
• You're pretty fast at implementing new features and systems
• You're excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles amid some uncertainty

Diversity and inclusion

We prioritize inclusion and have started the company with this in mind. Our founders come from diverse ethnic backgrounds and we’re currently gender-diverse as well. Having a team with diverse experiences and opinions allows our employees, our products, and our community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Benefits of working at Myxt:

GENEROUS VACATION
Myxt has an unlimited PTO policy with a mandatory 1-week minimum per quarter.

FLEXIBLE HOURS
We prioritize productivity over hours-counting. We like consistent stand-ups, but also like hours that work best for you.

WORK FROM HOME
Myxt is a 100% distributed team and we have all been working from our homes since the beginning.

LGBTQ+ FRIENDLY
We think inclusivity is a fundamental part of building any kind of music-related service.

MATERNAL/PATERNAL LEAVE
Have a newly born, adopted, or fostered child? We want to support you. All paternity and maternity leaves are paid.