Arbetsbeskrivning

Join our global force of 500+ innovators, blending the latest in tech with the greatest in soundtracking, from our Stockholm HQ to offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Oslo, and Seoul. We’re an industry leader with a startup mentality. We take what we do seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Creating and collaborating to transform the sound of streaming, content, and culture. Come join us— and let the world feel your work.

In the Soundtrack product area, we are on a mission to reimagine soundtracking and enable our users to effortlessly create soundscapes that fit perfectly to their content, all seamlessly integrated into their workflows. We are now looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to drive the innovation, scale, and technical direction of the systems that empower millions of creators to elevate their content.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will be a strategic technical leader across multiple teams within the Soundtrack area. You’ll play a key role in bringing our mission to life through architectural oversight, hands-on coding, and close collaboration with senior leaders across tech, product, and design.

In Soundtrack we are constantly breaking new ground to build the best tools for soundtracking for creators. We serve our AI powered features across a broad range of clients, and our backend capability platform needs to support this advanced product ecosystem in a flexible yet structured way. We solve exciting and complex problems in the intersection of sound, video, software engineering and machine learning, utilizing both agentic workflows and generative AI.

You’ll work on a broad range of initiatives, from defining core architectural foundations to driving technical choices that affect our entire backend ecosystem. You’ll lead by example, mentor other engineers, drive platform decisions, and ensure our microservices architecture is robust, scalable, and built for the long term.

• Set technical direction: Define the backend strategy across the product area, ensuring a scalable and maintainable architecture that aligns with our ambitious product goals.

• Architect complex systems: Act as a primary partner to engineering and product leads, translating complex business requirements into elegant, performant backend solutions that align with machine learning and frontend requirements.

• Lead high-impact discovery: Drive early-stage technical discovery for important initiatives, making strategic trade-offs and mapping out execution paths for multiple teams.

• Raise the engineering bar: Promote backend excellence by championing best practices in API design, system resilience, security, and observability across the organization.

• Mentor & coach: Inspire and grow technical capabilities across the tech organization, fostering a culture of feedback, mob programming, and continuous learning.

• Platform strategy: Align backend frameworks, tooling, and conventions across teams to enable fast, safe, and consistent development.

• Deep backend skills: You have extensive experience with modern backend technologies, preferably Go (or languages like Kotlin/Python) and a deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices.

• Architectural vision: A proven track record of leading complex technical projects from initial strategy through to execution at scale.

• Infrastructure fluency: Deep experience building scalable and reliable software systems.

• Holistic leadership: You balance hands-on coding with big-picture systems thinking, capable of moving between deep-dives into code and high-level architectural planning.

• Collaborative mindset: Excellent communication skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders and thrive in a cross-functional, agile environment.

• Product mindset: A passion for building high-quality, user-centered software and an understanding of how technical choices impact the end-user experience.

• building tools for creators or working within a media-heavy environment.

• working closely with Data Scientists and Machine Learning engineers.

• with cloud Infrastructure (GCP & K8s).

• with search systems and Elasticsearch.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe that bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives makes for a healthy workplace, a more successful business and a better world. We value diversity and encourage everyone to come and soundtrack the world with us.

Application

Ready to make the world feel your work? Apply now by clicking the link below! We embrace a hybrid model but love collaborating in person, so we spend the majority of our time in the office.