Backend Engineer

at  Soundtrack Technologies Sweden AB

ABOUT US

Soundtrack Technologies is a B2B scale-up company providing music streaming services to more than 60,000 businesses in over 70 countries, from the café around the corner to bigger brands like McDonald’s, Toni & Guy and TAG Heuer.
The company consists of 80+ talented, motivated and humble employees. We believe in product-led growth, where the product is the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion and expansion. Our headquarters are located in central Stockholm (Odenplan).

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS

• Strong experience in designing and building reliable and performant services APIs.
• Knowledge and experience of different kinds of data storage & messaging solutions and their strengths and weaknesses.
• Strong experience with building cloud native services (GCP, AWS or Azure).
• Well-versed in building robust and maintainable code.

MERITING EXPERIENCE (NOT REQUIRED)

• General interest in music and/or music technology
• Experienced with Git or another distributed source management system
• Previous experience of Scala and/or Go
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with web development (React and/or React Native)
• GraphQL APIs and libraries (we use Caliban on the backend and Apollo for clients)
• Automated testing
• Experience or interest in functional programming
• While this is a hybrid role, we do prefer candidates who live somewhat close to Stockholm for occasional team days at our office.

THE ROLE

The Product Experience team is a multidisciplinary team responsible for our user facing touch points - mobile, desktop, and web apps. We’re now looking to strengthen the team with backend competence. As a backend engineer in the team, you’ll be working on a wide range of user-centric projects together with other frontend engineers, product owners, UI/UX designers, machine learning experts, researchers, music experts and analysts.
Your primary focus will be to work on new features and continuous improvements to support user-facing features in our apps built on React/React Native. As a team we continuously iterate based on insights, A/B testing and qualitative user feedback.
You can check out the How it works page to see what kind of features you will be working on or download our app and sign up for a free trial to get a first hand experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Designing and developing services needed to realize our product roadmap.
• Improving, evolving and replacing existing services and APIs.
• Making sure our systems stay performant, reliable and cost efficient.
• Contribute to the team’s vision, strategy and agenda.
• Helping the team grow as a whole by sharing knowledge and lifting each other up.