Staff Frontend Engineer - Artist Success Job at SoundCloud Ltd in New York

Overview

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!