Web Engineer

🏢 About SoundCloud

SoundCloud empowers artists, tastemakers and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is a creator-first platform helping artists build and grow their careers by providing them with the most advanced tools, services, and resources. With over 4x the music catalogue of every other major streaming platform, spanning 40+ million artists across 190+ countries, SoundCloud is where emerging artists find their sound, hidden gems are discovered, and music culture is shaped in real time.

🎯 The Role

SoundCloud is seeking a seasoned and talented Web Engineer with a strong background in payments, web development, and JavaScript to join a focused feature team. As part of the newly formed Revenue Group Web Team, you will own the web surfaces, desktop and mobile web, that bring SoundCloud's ads and payments products to life for millions of users. Your work will directly impact the health of the business and the experience of every SoundCloud fan and creator by delivering web infrastructure and features that fuel SoundCloud’s revenue engine.

🛠️ Tech Stack

The core technologies for this role include TypeScript and React, complemented by modern web tooling such as Next.js and Vite.

💼 What You'll Do

• Build and maintain user-facing web features that support ads, subscriptions, and creator commerce.
• Work pragmatically within a large, established codebase, incrementally modernising legacy areas while shipping new features.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and other web teams.
• Contribute to the development of new ad formats (display, video, audio pods) and ad experimentation frameworks.
• Develop and optimise checkout and payment flows that are secure, accessible, and conversion-driven.
• Participate in technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and roadmap planning.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and maintainability of SoundCloud’s web surfaces.
• Debug complex issues across systems and browsers, ensuring a consistent experience for users globally.
• Advocate for best practices in accessibility, testing, and front-end performance.

✅ What You'll Need

• 4–6 years of professional experience building modern web applications.
• Deep knowledge of TypeScript, React, and modern web tooling (e.g., Next.js, Vite).
• Ability to analyse and optimise web application performance, including identifying and addressing bottlenecks and implementing performance enhancements.
• Solid grasp of web performance, accessibility, and responsive design principles.
• Experience integrating payments, ads, or other complex third-party SDKs/APIs.
• A product-oriented perspective—you care about the “why,” not just the “how”.
• Experience with observability tools and techniques, such as logging, monitoring, and error tracking, to ensure high availability and performance.
• A collaborative mindset and strong communication skills.

🌟 Nice to Have

• Experience with experimentation or A/B testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with ad tech or payments systems (e.g., Recurly, Adyen).
• Experience contributing to large-scale web performance or monetisation projects.