Blokur

What we do

Did you know that it can take a songwriter up to four years to get paid when their song is played on the radio or a streaming service?

That’s because the data that tells the world who wrote the song and who owns it is very often missing, incomplete or out-of-date.

We are tackling this problem at Blokur by building a new system of record for music rights data to make sure that whenever a song is played, the right person gets paid.

Our company was founded from the lived experience of an artist on the front line of the music industry, and is driven by a diverse and creative team of technologists, music fans and business brains motivated by our mission to fulfill the potential of the internet for the creator.

We are off to a flying start – partnered with the world’s biggest and most influential music companies and artists, and backed by top tier investors.

Come join us as we build out new infrastructure for the music industry and improve the lives of creators around the world.

Our Values

Belief in the value and power of creativity

We believe in the power of creativity to solve problems, generate new ideas and drive culture forward

Restless innovation

We will always seek to generate, develop and implement new ideas, whatever the stage of the company

Success based on merit

We should succeed by the value we create for our customers, and our team should succeed based on their abilities and achievements, whatever their background

International outlook

The world will be more, not less connected in the future, and we succeed when we open ourselves to ideas, relationships and opportunities across borders

Engineering at Blokur

We are a curious and diverse team with a product-oriented engineering culture. Creativity, transparency, ownership and autonomy are encouraged at Blokur. The team has end-to-end responsibility for features: from the design, commit, deploy maintenance and operations.

For us, Agile is a state of mind and its principles matter more than any specific practice.

Our backend infrastructure is based on Go microservices, although we also have some services written in Node.js and Python, backed by PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch. Blokur’s front end applications are written in React Redux and we rely on the Ethereum stack to handle interactions with the blockchain. All our services are hosted on AWS. Github, Travis, Docker and Kubernetes help us to make sure our deployment is robust.

We are highly engaged with the Music & Tech community. Our engineers have been involved in hackathons and meetup events.

Collaboration is also encouraged, we’ve recently open sourced a project with the Digital Catapult for matching across Knowledge Bases.

Our Recruitment Process

We’ve designed our interview process with two main goals: to get to know you and also for you to learn what is like to be part of our team. It consists of 3 steps:

• Step 1: A call with a member of the Engineering team (30 mins). This is an informal conversation where you can learn more about Blokur and find out if we are the right place for the next step in your career.

• Step 2: Take-home code challenge (in your own time). You will be asked to complete a code challenge. We will be evaluating your code style, creativity and way of thinking. It should not take more than an afternoon’s work and you will have 72-96 hours to submit it.

• Step 3: On-site interview (half a day), where you will meet other team members, conduct some technical and engineering culture questions with one of our developers and the CTO. You will also meet our CEO.

We understand that looking for jobs can be quite time consuming, so we can accommodate our interviewing process to fit with your availability at each interview stage.

What Happens Next?

The team will evaluate your application and will get back to you with the final result. If your application is successful you will receive an offer with the terms.