http://www.techstartupjobs.com/jobs/api-hacker/

Specifically, the right person will be responsible for creating web apps using Decibel’s own APIs (Earth, Wind and Fire) and mashing our data with images, sound prints, digital music files, and services such as Amazon, Deezer, Getty and Spotify

They will be part of our 5-man technical team, who will be there to support and inspire in equal measure.

Some useful skills:

- A mind for user experience and creating exceptional user journeys

- Understands the value of data

- Experience of building consumer applications

- Data visualisation, info-graphics and interactive journeys

- produce front-end design, graphical components

- ensure cross browser compatibility

- screen programming

- html 5 coding

- programming using APIs (REST or SOAP)

- mobile application development

- web application development

- API development skills and web programming skills

- Creating innovative applications and mind-blowing user experiences

Ideal Background: Music / Digital Music Product Development with a Label, or Digital Service Provider

Salary & Benefits: Competitive

We will also consider a contract role for exceptional candidates.

How to Apply

Just email us: jobs@decibel.net with either your portfolio / CV / Blog / LinkedIn profile and a way to contact you

Decibel are an equal opportunites employer (but we do discriminate on the basis of talent)

Our very own Greg Kris will be charing the debate at the upcoming Music 4.5 event ‘Data is Sexy 2: Data as arms’.

Music 4.5 is a series of events that bring together music tech start-ups, serial entrepreneurs, investors, artists, band managers and key industry players to share knowledge, discuss strategies for business success, debate market trends and evolution, as well as network. (From Music 4.5)

The discussions at the event will cover all aspects of the data business, from legal implications through to what products we can expect to see in the future. With a great line up of panellists and  full afternoon of conversation, you’d be a fool to miss out!

To find out more information about the event or sign up, visit the event on their website.

Email: jobs@decibel.net

This year we are offering Technology Internships and Music Researcher Internships

Technology Developers – Internships

We’re looking for a number of computer science, software development or database architecture students with an interest in digital music.

We know that a good developer needs more than just good development skills… Identifying solutions, understanding the business, lateral thinking, and steely determination to weed out bugs are all of primary importance. If you have some or any of the following skills, get in touch.

• Ruby
• SQL Server
• C# coding
• .net Framework
• Silverlight
• ASP

Interested? email: jobs@decibel.net

Music Researchers – Internships

We’re looking for smart, interesting, and hard-working people to join our researcher team. We’re looking for a number of students and recent graduates with an interest in digital music..

Whether you’re into Pop, Rock’n'Roll, House, Classical, Jazz, Dubstep, or rubbish 80s pop – then this is the right chance to join the ‘next big thing’ in the global digital music sector.

You could be a musician, a DJ, or a clubber, or a smooth jazz lover – as long as you’re as obsessed about music as we are, you’re welcome to apply to join our award-winning team.

At the end of the internship successful candidates may well be offered a permanent role – over the last 12 months, we’ve offered permanent jobs to 5 of our very best.

Some of our researchers have gone on to work for some of the best digital and music companies in the world. We’re based in Covent Garden – Holborn, surrounded by the media district and always have interesting companies coming in to visit us.

After the bank holiday weekend, I’m sure a few of you may well be in need of a helping hand this morning. Rather than advocate the real thing (of course, we would never dream of doing such terrible things), how about  an audio equivalent?

Our loyal intern Mazzie has put together a list of his top ten spirit related tracks and even given us a Spotify playlist to take out the hassle of having to find them ourselves.

So sit back, relax and let the music do its work, but have the tomato juice on standby just in case.

Thin Lizzy – Whisky In The Jar

Ja Rule – Black Vodka

Sly & The Revolutionaries – White Rum

The Champs – Tequilla

Snoop Doggy Dogg – Gin And Juice

Mack 10, Butch Cassidy, Young Soprano - Cognac & Doja

Natasha Kmeto – Ouzo Fade

Gregory James – Akavit

Josh Martinez, Mother Mother – Absinth Tears

Calexico – Cachaça

You can find the spottily playlist here.

If you like this, check out one of our favourite websites at Decibel, Drinkify. It’s a service that can provide you with the perfect drink for whatever you’re listening to… and sometimes it might surprise you with something a little stronger.

Find out more about alternative chart company The Sound Index here.

(Spotify Playlist)

Friday – The Subways

Friday On My Mind – David Bowie

Friday Night Saturday Morning – The Specials

Friday’s Angels – Generation X

Friday Street – Paul Weller

She Left Me Friday – Shed Seven

Friday Night – Lily Allen

Friday I’m In Love – The Cure

Friday Night – The Darkness

Good Friday – Black Crowes

(compiled by @rocktilyoudrop)

Apply to: jobs@decibel.net

About the Role

Decibel Music Systems supplies data and data services to retailers, digital service providers, record labels, broadcasters and developers so that they may create products to drive innovation, discovery and consumption of music globally.

Decibel is one of the fast-growing, and most profitable companies in the music sector in Europe, and at the cutting edge of some of the most important technologies for the music industry and related media companies

Decibel is looking for a smart, commercially minded individual to manage their client relations to join our Covent Garden office in London

Responsibilities

The successful applicant will be responsible for growing the adoption of the Decibel’s APIs, managing inbound client requests, increasing the use of Decibel’s data and communicating via phone, email and social media with our growing number of clients.

-       Daily management by phone and email of inbound client requests

-       Weekly email newsletters to our clients

-       Managing website news, blogs and special offers

-       Selling license packages to existing clients

-       Identifying, communicating with, and selling services to, new prospective clients

-       Understanding complex data requirements and technical solutions

-       Problem-solving and query management and escalation

-       Organising team members and technical resources to serve client needs

-       Attending industry events

-       Crafting presentations and marketing materials

-       Going on senior level meetings with clients and partners

Skills Required

-       Excellent verbal communication skills

-       An ability to communicate effectively by email and social media

-       An ability to speak with clients at different levels, from developers to CEOs

-       Excellent written communication skills

-       A rudimentary knowledge of databases, data and technology

-       An ability to work to sales targets and to commission structures

-       Self-motivated, hungry to succeed

-       Desire to graduate to a management role

-       An engrained ability to think beyond the problem and beyond their role

Background

-       A love of music and an interest in the music industry

-       Graduate, or Graduate Equivalent

-       Possibly Multi-lingual or Multi-cultural

-       Experience in managing people and their expectations

-       A keen interest in technology and the digital economy

-       Experience of selling and sales

-       A track record of hard work and a dedicated nature

Details

ROLE: Client Services Manager

REPORTING: The Employee shall report directly to Gregory Kris, CEO

PACKAGE: Pretty Decent Actually.

LOCATION: Based in our Covent Garden office, Macklin Street, London, UK

HOURS OF WORK: 9.30 am to 6.00 pm for 5 days per week.

About Decibel

Decibel operates a platform that supplies rich, semantic music product metadata APIs and digital assets to businesses in the broadcast, media and digital sectors.

These data-driven assets power the creation of Connected TV, mobile, tablet and web applications, business intelligence, consumer electronics, digital retail outlets and set global standards for communication and collaboration across the media industries.

Decibel has a track record of hiring the keenest and most dedicated people in the music and technology industry. We provide a very immersive environment and provide training for all employees. Decibel is an equal opportunities employer.

(Spotify Playlist Link)

Killer McHann – Jesus Lizard

Your’e Killing Me – Pavement

You’re Gonna Kill That Girl – The Ramones

Psycho Killer – Talking Heads

Killer on the Loose – Thin Lizzy

Cortez the Killer – Neil Young

View To A Kill – Duran Duran

Killing Floor – Body Count

Kill The Poor – The Dead Kennedys

Killer in the Home – Adam & the Ants

@rocktilyoudrop

Sinead O’Connor

…13 years earlier George Michael topped the US Billboard Hot 100 Charts for several weeks with the single Faith. The homonymous album was partially recorded at the Puk Studios in Denmark like…

…Depeche Mode’s 1990 album Violator. Martin Gore, co-founder of the band, is also the songwriter, lyricist and singer like…

…Sade. The  Nigerian-born Brit artist with a delicate taste for feminine elegance recognizable in her works, in 2005 took part in the project Voices for Darfur. For the occasion she recorded the track “Mum” and gave an interview to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Like Sade…

…Yo-Yo Ma, internationally renowned cellist, supports UN. In 2006, Ma was named Peace Ambassador by UN secretary Kofi Annan. Ma’s live performances often feature “Appalachia Waltz”, a composition by…

…Mark O’Connor jazz, country and classical violin player, composer and music teacher.

(by Angela Cataluddi)

Davy Jones, singer with the Monkees who sadly died yesterday at the age of 66, shares a proper name – David Jones – with…

…David Bowie, who when he started out in the mid-1960s also recorded by the name of Davy (or Davie) Jones. To avoid confusion with his namesake, however, he renamed himself Bowie, apparently after the knife which itself was named after and popularised by American frontiersman, Jim Bowie. In June 1969 Bowie drafted a young…

…Rick Wakeman to play mellotron on his song Space Oddity, for which he was apparently paid £9. Wakeman would be invited back to play with Bowie the following year, contributing piano parts to Life on Mars, Changes and Oh! You Pretty Things, and again in 1985 to play on Absolute Beginners. Wakeman started out as a session musician before going on to join the Strawbs, and then more famously, prog rock band Yes in 1971. He also played piano on the 1971 version of Morning Has Broken released by English singer-songwriter…

…Cat Stevens. Cat Seven’s other hits included the 1966 song Matthew & Sons, which featured piano playing by…

…Nicky Hopkins, who more famously played on the Rolling Stones’ studio albums between 1967 and 1981. Hopkins was one of London’s most in-demand session pianists during the 1960s, also playing on records by The Kinks, The Pretty Things, The Move and The Who. On a number of occasions – includng the Matthew and Sons session and as part of a supergroup that guitar virtuoso Jeff Beck attempted to put together in 1996, which included Jimmy Page and Keith Moon, Hopkins would play with another session musician who like Wakeman and Page would go on to rock superstardom, bass player…

…John Paul Jones.

(by @rocktilyoudrop)