Senior Backend Software Engineer, SoundCloud
Ads Team
+ Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem
Job no longer available
Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Employee Stock Ownership Plan
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower the world's audio creators with the best tools, services and resources to build and grow their careers.
Role
Who you are
- You have solid backend engineering skills and are motivated to create service frameworks with top-notch performance and reliability
- You have experience in bringing backend services to production
- You can track and showcase the tangible business impact of your work
- You are proficient in programming languages like Scala, TypeScript, Java, or Go
- You understand infrastructure challenges and have a keen eye for improving them
- You're proactive and have experience collaborating closely with other teams
- You enjoy crafting simple solutions to complex engineering problems and can communicate them effectively
- You're an independent thinker who thrives in a tight-knit team
- You're committed to the products you work on
Desirable
- Prior experience with microservices, Scala, automated testing, and continuous delivery are all highly valued. Experience in AWS or GCP cloud-services, as well as technologies such as Typescript, GraphQL, Kafka, and data processing pipelines is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Backend Software Engineer, Ads team at SoundCloud, you’ll be helping us build our next-generation API platform for our user experience applications
- We are a cross-functional, collaborative, high-impact team that works with large-scale Scala microservices. Help us develop and modernize our platform by adopting newer technologies and concepts (Go, NodeJS/Typescript)
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Founded in 2007, SoundCloud saw the need for an artist-first platform. They set out to empower independent artists and equip them with the necessary tools and resources to build and grow their careers.
SoundCloud has over 40 million artists on the platform (in comparison to Spotify's 11 million), making them the biggest audio discovery platform in a large and growing market. According to Midia Research, the independent artist market is bound to see unhindered revenue growth for the next few years.
The company plans to scale up its audience and expand its services through new offerings such as the SoundCloud "roster". This is a tier system that provides significant creative and financial resources, as well as financial and marketing support to artists (essentially rivaling large-scale record companies). While artists will maintain ownership of their copyrights they are to be represented by SoundCloud.
SoundCloud's expansion into new markets and regions is still full steam ahead. Through acquisitions, partnerships and even better product offerings, SoundCloud is bent on cementing its standing as every creator's springboard.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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: $462.2m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
- Employee Stock Ownership 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
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, BE
Founders
Alexander Ljung
(Chairman)Served as CEO of SoundCloud for 10 years, becoming Chairman in 2017. Has gone onto co-found Dance.
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