Staff Frontend Engineer, SoundCloud
Artist Success
$170-220k
Offers equity plan
Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem
Be an early applicant
Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-220k
Offers equity plan
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower artists and fans to connect and share through music.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Founded in 2007, SoundCloud recognized the need for an artist-first platform. The company set out with a clear mission: to empower independent artists by providing them with the necessary tools and resources to grow and build their careers.
Today, SoundCloud boasts over 40M artists on its platform, far outpacing Spotify, which has 11M. As a result, SoundCloud is the largest audio discovery platform in a rapidly growing market. According to MIDiA Research, the independent artist market is poised for continued revenue growth in the coming years, further solidifying SoundCloud's place in the industry.
The company plans to scale its audience and expand its services through new offerings, such as the SoundCloud "roster". This tier system is designed to provide artists with significant creative and financial resources, along with market support, rivalling major record labels. While artists retain ownership of their copyrights, they will be represented by SoundCloud, further enhancing the platform's appeal to independent creators.
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Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2020
$75m
SERIES G
Aug 2017
$170m
SERIES F
Total funding: $469.3m
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, BE
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