Backend Engineer .NET

Podme is looking for a backend engineer for our Listener Experience. The team focuses on the core experience in our web and app. Building a product that our customers really love.

Podme is growing, we are taking the next steps toward becoming a household brand. With some of the best podcasts in the industry, we now need to double down on the experience of listening to podcasts.

About the role:
As a backend engineer for the Listener Experience team at Podme, you will together with your team be responsible for the backend microservices and infrastructure that is the foundation of our listening experience. Focusing on stability, scalability, security, and providing our customers with a product they can trust and form habits around.

You will be a part of an agile well-functioning team of developers to push ideas all the way to implementation and evaluation.

Your main stakeholders are our listeners and in addition to this, you will also have a close collaboration with the cross-functional backend team. You will report to an Engineering manager (who reports to the CTO).

Teams info:
In the Listener Experience domain, we need to strengthen both our platform and subscription teams. While the teams are having different focus areas they still work closely together to both align on the best ways on building backend systems and also to help each other out when needed.

The platform team is focusing on our core microservices and infrastructure which is the foundation of Podme.

The subscriptions team focuses on conversion. Building integrations to PSP and growth hacking features to give our customers the best possible way into PodMe.

Tech stack:

- C#/.Net
- Microservices
- Kubernetes
- SQL Server and other databases
- Azure

Responsibilities:

- Contribute to the team in daily discussions on how to create the best solutions and how to operate in the best way possible
- Share knowledge through code reviews, pair programming, and weekly internal tech talks
- Create high-quality solutions which scale in terms of performance, cost-efficiency, and usability
- Be part of a future on-call rotation schedule

About you:
We believe that you are a self-driven, analytical, and ambitious person who understands and loves solving complex problems and taking ownership. You have a solid technical background which enables you to effectively build solutions that scale. We value active listeners and great communication very highly. Since you will be a part of a diverse team, you are also a social person, curious about others, and like teamwork. And most likely, you are not a stranger to podcasts.

- At least 3-5 years of experience working as a Backend engineer with relevant tech stack and product
- Good communication skills and fluent in English both spoken and written

What is Podme?
Podme is a fast-growing Nordic podcast platform where you find some of the biggest, most liked, and best (according to us) podcasts. What makes us unique is that we give our listeners access to our Premium podcasts which are exclusive and ad-free. Think Netflix, but for podcasts. We have about 200 000 monthly subscribers. We launched our service 2017 and today we have a great team of 50+ people that are focused on growth and further innovating the experience for our listeners.

Our offer:
At Podme you will find a great diverse and talented team, an inspiring and fun working environment. You will have great opportunities to impact the business and future of our company. We value the user experience and the listeners' needs come first.
Working 1-2 days a week from our office in Stockholm is both welcomed and encouraged.

Other information:
Location: Stockholm
Hiring form: full-time
Start: as soon as possible
Relocation package: not offered at this time

Next steps:
Sounds like something for you? Great! Please send in your CV, and we will get back to you to schedule an interview if we feel that your application is a good match. Interviews are held continuously and we won’t settle until we’ve found the right person – and hopefully, that person is you!


Podme is a fast growing nordic podcast platform where you find some of the biggest, most liked and best (according to us) podcasts. What makes us unique is that we give our listeners access to our Premium podcasts which are exclusive and ad-free. Think Netflix, but for podcasts. We launched our service 2017 and today we have a great team of 50+ people that are focused on growth and further innovating the experience for our listeners.