Senior Backend Engineer

Stockholm
Permanent
Heltid

14 dagar sedan

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.How you will make an impactAs a Senior Software Engineer in the Customer Platform team, you'll own and evolve the systems that define how users interact with Epidemic Sound - including account management and entitlements across both individual creators and enterprise customers. We're the system of record for account structures and what users are entitled to, ensuring the right experience reaches the right person, whether it's a solo artist or a global creative team.This foundational work enables us to deliver flexible, scalable experiences and underpins many of our commercial and product initiatives. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to a high-impact platform with visibility across the organization - shaping how we deliver enterprise-quality features and scale our offerings.We also foster a strong engineering culture grounded in openness and collaboration. You will regularly engage in pair and mob programming, as well as dedicated hack weeks for experimentation and learning. If you enjoy knowledge sharing and shaping a team's direction in a fast-moving environment, you'll feel right at home here.Your role will include, but not be limited to:

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services primarily in Golang on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Champion technical excellence from system design and architecture through development, deployment, reliability, and security.
Collaborate closely with frontend developers to deliver seamless React/Next.js-based interfaces for managing accounts.
Partner closely with enterprise, commercial, and product teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and shape the product roadmap.
Clearly communicate technical plans, challenges, and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Our Tech stack:We're evolving our platform toward modern backend technologies, primarily using:

Golang (our core backend language)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Kubernetes and Docker
GitHub and GitHub Actions for version control and CI/CD
Grafana for monitoring and observability
Event-driven architecture, microservices, and React/Next.js for frontend interfaces

What we're looking for:

5+ years of experience building and maintaining backend systems
Proven experience in at least one backend language, such as Java, Node.js, Kotlin or Go, which demonstrates your ability to build and maintain mission-critical systems
Strong grasp of distributed systems and system design principles
Experience operating in cloud environments (GCP preferred, AWS also welcome)
Experience working with modern CI/CD pipelines
Willingness to work with Golang as we evolve in that direction
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally

How you work:
You're curious, proactive, and thoughtful. You enjoy solving real-world problems at scale and take pride in delivering reliable software. You're someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, embraces uncertainty, and sees change as an opportunity to learn and adapt. You're someone who:

Navigates change with ease

Shares knowledge generously

Works collaboratively and transparently

Thinks long-term while executing short-term

Equal opportunity employerWe 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.ApplicationReady to make the world feel your work? Please apply, in English, by clicking the link “interested” below. Please note this role is full time based in Stockholm.About Epidemic Sound:Epidemic Sound has transformed the soundtracking experience for global brands and professional creators, with an expansive catalog of world-class music and sound effects that's seen and heard over 2.5 billion times a day around the globe. Providing a direct license model that comes with all rights included and next-generation soundtracking tools, Epidemic Sound empowers creators to unlock more feeling in everything they create and share their stories with the world. Epidemic Sound continuously enriches its world-class catalog of music by teaming up with artists, composers, and producers to create tracks spanning all genres, while supporting them financially and creatively.

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