Backend Engineer

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.

At Epidemic Sound we are reinventing the music industry. Our carefully curated catalog, with over 40 000 tracks and 90 000 sound effects, is tailored for storytellers, streaming services, and in-store soundtracks. Countless clients around the world, from broadcasters, production companies, DSPs, and YouTubers rely on our tracks to help them tell their stories. Epidemic Sound’s music is heard in hundreds of millions of online videos daily, across millions of playlist streams, and in thousands of in-store locations. Headquartered in Stockholm, we’re spread across offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Seoul, Hamburg, and Amsterdam. We’re growing fast, have lots of fun, and are taking the music industry with us.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to help us build our product and scale it around the world.

How you will make an impact

We are seeking a seasoned developer with experience in scaling the web and all the details that go into building a great user and developer experience. In this team, you will be a vital part of our future and building products that impact all of our users in a scalable and stable way.

What you’ll do

- Work on our micro services and evangelize the developer experience in the organization.

- Create APIs for our team and others, with the documentation that comes with.

- Integrate challenging and interesting internal and third party services to create a distributed system used by all of Epidemic’s creators.

- Be a part of a diverse and inclusive team that values open communication and honesty with each other.

- Conduct A/B tests and analyze data to improve user experience

- Act as an architect, taking ownership of complex technical projects, including planning, cross-team collaboration, and impact evaluation

- Mentor and coach team members, fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture

What you’ll bring

- Experience with building APIs and documentation.

- Able to scale web solutions.

- Experience with Python and Django (or another backend programming language such as Kotlin, Java, Go etc).

- A focus on platform stability and observability.

- Good communication skills.

- A driven and impact motivated mindset with an attention to detail and eye on the future.

It would also be music to our ears if you are willing and able to work in Javascript.

Curious to learn more about who we are and what we do? Check out our brand new "About us" page → https://www.epidemicsound.com/about-us/



Application

Do you want to be a part of our fantastic team? Please apply, in English, by clicking the link below.