At Epidemic Sound we are all about building fantastic products that people love to use. To accomplish this we are big believers in teamwork and collaborative problem solving, and we value communication, empathy and a team-first mindset. Our multiple development teams consists of developers, product owners, designers and data scientist who work closely together with the ownership and freedom to make the most of their product area. We have an amazing office with an exceptional vibe on Södermalm.

You would join one of our cross-functional product teams dedicated to solving a problem and delivering outcome within one of our product areas. As a senior software engineer you would support and mentor junior team members in finding the right solutions and system designs. You would also contribute to, and sometimes lead, cross-team initiatives to evolve shared components and platform architecture.

You can expect to:

• Contribute to all stages of the product life-cycle: Design, implementation, testing, releasing and maintenance.

• Work in a lightweight agile process where we regularly evaluate how we work and try to improve.

• Collaborate constantly: We’re big believers in teamwork and the value of practices like careful code reviews, pair (or mob) programming etc

• Learn a ton of new things: Be it through hack-days, courses, conferences or tech-talks, we emphasize learning and we also expect you to share your knowledge with your colleagues.

• Have fun and take a lot of pride in what you and all of Epidemic Sound is doing.

This is a full-time position based at our HQ in Stockholm.

What are we looking for?

In order for you to thrive in this role, we believe that you:

• Have a great understanding of modern web architectures, system design, data structures and software engineering principles, and understand how to apply them to design scalable and robust solutions.

• Have been mentoring and supporting less experienced colleagues and engineering teams, particularly in reducing technical debt and complexity in applications

• Love teamwork

• Are passionate about building great products that people love, and you always make technology choices with this end-goal in mind

• Are principled but also pragmatic: You value best-practices but realize that all rules have exceptions.

• Experience working closely with business and product stakeholders, and thus a strong understanding of business and user requirements.

• Speak English with professional working proficiency (Swedish is not a requirement)

It would also be music to our ears if you have:

• Experience of one or more of the following: Python, Django, React & Redux, Elastic Search, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP ecosystem, Kotlin

• Worked with audio streaming and/or music library management

• Experience from e-commerce, online subscription and/or payment solutions