Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

Remote. Posted 16 months ago

The role

You will lead technical direction for the engineering team and contribute as an individual contributor. You will build and maintain user-facing tools including song and artist pages, artist tools, community management tools, governance and membership tools.

What you will do

Set the technical direction for the team and help guide frontend engineering vision
Create user experiences with an eye towards performance and accessibility
Build reusable components, write unit and integration tests, and raise code quality
Lead the architecting of important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling challenges
Design, build, and continually improve Sound's core frontend infrastructure
Act as a player-coach and champion code quality and developer experience
Mentor and train other engineers on the team

Required qualifications

6+ years of experience writing production software
Live between GMT-8 and GMT-5 (North American timezones)
Advanced knowledge of React and Typescript

Nice to have

Public contributions to open source projects
Experience with Next.js, GraphQL
Full-stack experience (NodeJS)

Benefits

Health, mental health, dental, and vision insurance
Remote-first teamwork
Work-from-home/remote office stipend
Team offsites for periodic collaborative strategy sessions in person

About the company

Sound aims to honor the value of music by giving a million artists the opportunity to live off their music.