Backend Web Developer / Full Stack Web Developer (m/f/d)

We are an innovative, young-at-heart and established company with flat hierarchies and a passionate, versatile team. Although we have been in the business for over 20 years, we still enjoy working in our special niches, where we are one of the „hidden champions“ worldwide. We produce high quality music, sound effects and audio software for the international market. Our work, our products and our content can be heard in thousands of well-known media productions such as DUNE, GAME OF THRONES, FORTNITE, RINGS OF POWER, AVENGERS, and many more.

We are specialists in interactive, immersive, and adaptive sound, and develop entirely new types of software applications in this field: whether as web apps, as audio plug-ins, as virtual musical instruments or as AI and machine-learning supported tools.

We are looking for an experienced Backend/Full Stack Web Developer (m/f/d) with focus on PHP- and WordPress-programming, to work with our team to maintain and improve our current websites and further develop our unique platform for adaptive music (Smartsound Cloud). The focus at Smartsound Cloud is on developing new features, improving the API, updating the timeline, building a structure for individual user management per customer, linking with other web platforms, etc.

• You maintain and update our online apps and the backends of our websites.
• You develop new features and plugins that simplify the internal administration of our websites (e.g. connection to payment systems, expansion of our ERP system, data analysis tools, etc.)
• You are fully part of our new Smartsound Cloud platform and can experience and shape the development process there: new functionalities, new platform connections, improvement of current features, etc.

• Experience in WordPress
• Experience in PHP: Yii, Codeigniter
• Experience in Javascript: Angular, Vue, Nuxt
• Experience in Servermanagement: Bash, Apache, Nginx, Cron, Tmux, Plesk
• Database experience: MySQL
• Experience in Tools:.NET Framework, Node JS, Playwright, Elasticsearch
• You ensure smooth and successful collaboration between customers and team
• You are motivated, communicative, a team player, efficient, and write clean code

• Motivation & fun: unique, internationally renowned projects and websites
• Team spirit: large, friendly creative network between the ages of 20−50 (focus on early /mid 30s)
• Freedom & commitment: we love self-initiative, transparency, new ideas and work nearly without hierarchies
• Professionalism & security: a huge range of interesting tasks at a high professional level. Positive teamwork atmosphere and family-friendly company structures
• Diversity: we are several companies – the range of services, products, ideas, and projects is very diverse and unique in this costellation in the field of international media production
• Flexibility: customizable working environment (home office, remote or at our headquarters in Mainz, our office in Berlin)

We look forward to receiving your application by e-mail to: