Software Engineer (Frontend) - MakeMusic

Company Summary

Help Shape the Future of Music Creation and Education at MakeMusic

At MakeMusic, we believe music has the power to inspire, connect, and transform lives. For over three decades, we’ve been at the forefront of music technology, building tools that help musicians compose, teach, learn, and perform. Our products are trusted by Grammy-winning composers, world-class educators, and students in classrooms and homes around the globe.

With MakeMusic Cloud, we’ve reimagined music practice for the digital age by offering students real-time feedback, access to an extensive repertoire library, and seamless tools for educators to track progress and personalize instruction.

If you’re passionate about music, driven by innovation, and eager to create tools that empower musicians and educators around the world, then MakeMusic is the stage you’ve been looking for!

We would love to have you join our ever-growing team! All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of gender, race, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical disability, religion, or length of time spent unemployed.

General Summary

As a front-end Software Engineer on the MakeMusic engineering team, you will be responsible for creating and supporting the MakeMusic Cloud product used daily by thousands of students and teachers. Our teams own their applications from inception to production and are responsible for developing, testing and releasing and maintaining our products. Team members must be flexible and willing to take on whatever responsibilities are needed to regularly ship products that delight our customers.

As an individual on the team, you will develop software solutions and features in collaboration with our Product Management team, based on customers’ feedback; you will continuously improve the product’s performance, quality, and accessibility by refactoring, addressing bugs, and helping to improve the product’s operational environment; and you will collaborate closely with other engineers, and teams across the company, to contribute to our processes and culture.

You are a continuous learner with a hunger for knowledge. You approach challenges as opportunities to improve. You value team members’ input from all levels and you actively seek ways to support your colleagues.

You will sit directly with the MakeMusic Engineering Team, work in close collaboration with Product, Content, and Data teams, and report to the Manager, Engineering.

Core Functions: 

• Create new features and bug fixes for MakeMusic Cloud products
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX/UI, Data, and Content to design and deliver delightful user experiences
• Work with other engineers to improve existing architecture, define new architecture patterns, and help to research and implement tools and processes that enhance quality and increase productivity
• Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications: 

• 2-4+ years experience solving front-end web development problems in complex single-page applications
• 2-4+ years experience with React JS, with additional experience using some of the following technologies and/or libraries: Typescript, Redux, Ember, .NET and SQL
• Solid understanding of Git workflows, Javascript, HTML and CSS/SASS.
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and test driven development
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement of yourself and your team
• Degrees are not required and we value all forms of continued education including traditional four-year degrees, post-graduate degrees, associates degrees, bootcamps, online training, professional certifications, self-teaching and more.

Desired Qualifications: 

• Experience developing with modern JS/TS web application frameworks such as ReactJS, NextJS, VueJS, ExpressJS, FeathersJS, Koa, etc
• Actively embracing AI-assisted engineering. Your interest has grown beyond chat prompts and code completion, and you’re actively exploring concepts like MCP, RAG, and vectorization. You’re eager to integrate AI capabilities into the front-end applications you build, and to leverage AI tooling across the engineering process.
• A background in any of the following is a plus: developing web applications that meet WCAG accessibility guidelines, experience with complex state management in single-page applications, and/or knowledge of Web Audio, Web MIDI, or MediaRecorder APIs.
• Familiarity with music education, notation/theory, or with building products for the ed-tech market.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Don’t worry. We still want to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

The work characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Benefits

Compensation:

We are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The annual salary range for this role in Colorado is $80,317-133,861. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, and certifications. This role is eligible for variable compensation including bonus.

Benefits and Perks:

Health

• We offer comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings and flexible spending accounts, paid parental leave; and an employee assistance program.
• Additional coverage options including Accident & Critical Illness insurance as well as Hospital Indemnity are also available.

Disability and Life

• We offer several company paid options including Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, as well as Basic Life Insurance and AD&D.
• Additional coverage options including Employee-paid Supplemental Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and/or Child are also available.

Additional

• We offer a 401(K) including a company match.
• We observe 12 paid holidays annually and provide discretionary Flexible Time Off. Employees also receive free access to our products, corporate discounts, and professional development resources.
• Access to the Performance and Recovery Center (PARC), our on-site fitness facility, as well as employee only access to on-site locker rooms and showers. 
• Employee only access to secure, indoor bike storage and access to e-bikes exclusively to Peaksware employees.
• Access to our onsite Music and Podcast Studio.

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Peaksware adheres to the FLSA Exemption Threshold for minimum wage in all states.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment that is well-lighted, heated, and/or air-conditioned with adequate ventilation and a noise level that is usually moderate. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets.

All employees must comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to your manager and/or Human Resources.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and move about the facility; use hands to handle, or feel; talk by expressing ideas by means of the spoken word; and hear by perceiving the nature of sounds. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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