Job description
SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.
SoundCloud is looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to join our growing Creator team!
As front-end engineers at SoundCloud, we build the user experience for beautifully designed, highly functional products and tools that music listeners and creators love. We actively improve our tools and processes to support collaboration and productivity. We cultivate an environment where we can all learn and grow.
Key Responsibilities:
- Applying best engineering practices to design, develop, and maintain high-performance systems using React, TypeScript, NextJS and NodeJS
- Improving the ecosystem that ensures artists can connect with their fans and help them get paid to support their passion
- Mentoring junior and mid level engineers and will be a role modal in promoting positive team culture
- Working closely with a wide range of stakeholders including product leadership, music industry experts and engineering teams across SoundCloud
- Becoming a domain expert in the music business through your desire to help artists grow their careers
- Representing the team to the wider organization and communicating our data and tooling needs that would keep our systems lean and maintainable
Experience and Background:
- 12+ years of experience building high traffic, highly performant user experiences
- You are self directed and collaborate well with Backend Engineers, Product Managers, Design and other key stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions
- You are comfortable driving projects across teams from inception to completion with a strong sense of ownership
- A history of shipping using React, NextJS, Typescript and NodeJS in production environments
- Extensive experience automating e2e tests within CI pipelines
- Experience working with various API solutions such as GraphQL, RESTful APIs and gRPC
- Experience deploying and managing services in cloud environments, preferably AWS
The salary range for this role is $170,000 - $220,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below!
About us:
- We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
- We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
- We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
- We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
- Robust 401k program
- Employee Equity Plan
- Generous professional development allowance
- Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
- Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
- 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
- Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud
SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.
At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.
