About the role

  • Staff Backend Engineer at Epidemic Sound driving backend systems innovation and technical direction in Stockholm. Collaborating on complex soundtracking tools integrating tech with media content.

Responsibilities

  • define the backend strategy across the product area, ensuring a scalable and maintainable architecture that aligns with our ambitious product goals
  • 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
  • drive early-stage technical discovery for important initiatives, making strategic trade-offs and mapping out execution paths for multiple teams
  • promote backend excellence by championing best practices in API design, system resilience, security, and observability across the organization
  • inspire and grow technical capabilities across the tech organization, fostering a culture of feedback, mob programming, and continuous learning
  • align backend frameworks, tooling, and conventions across teams to enable fast, safe, and consistent development.

Requirements

  • extensive experience with modern backend technologies, preferably Go (or languages like Kotlin/Python)
  • deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices
  • proven track record of leading complex technical projects from initial strategy through to execution at scale
  • deep experience building scalable and reliable software systems
  • excellent communication skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders and thrive in a cross-functional, agile environment
  • passion for building high-quality, user-centered software and an understanding of how technical choices impact the end-user experience.
  • experience building tools for creators or working within a media-heavy environment
  • experience closely with Data Scientists and Machine Learning engineers
  • experience with cloud Infrastructure (GCP & K8s)
  • experience with search systems and Elasticsearch.

Benefits

  • flexible work arrangements
  • professional development opportunities

Job title

Staff Backend Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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