Backend Engineer - Payments & Entitlements

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40+ million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

We are seeking backend engineers to join our Payments & Entitlements team! Our team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems that power subscriptions and purchases across iOS, Android, and web platforms. From integrating with external vendors to building a seamless and secure checkout experience, we enable millions of users to access and enjoy premium features on SoundCloud.

In addition to this, our team contributes to experimentation and development of new payment-related initiatives aimed at enhancing the way users interact with and access SoundCloud’s offerings. This is an exciting opportunity to shape future payment experiences through innovative projects.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems for subscription-related purchases and transactions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create a seamless checkout experience.
• Build integrations with third-party vendors using APIs and webhooks.
• Experiment with and implement new payment-related ideas and projects.
• Enhance platform capabilities by designing scalable, maintainable, and performant systems.
• Ensure platform reliability through modern monitoring, alerting, and on-call rotation practices.
• Continuously improve infrastructure and tools to support better development and deployment practices.
• Keep our tech stack up to date by leveraging modern technologies and best practices.
• Continuously learn and share knowledge of industry best practices on our tech stack.

What We're Looking For

• This is a mid-level role, ideal for candidates with a solid foundation in backend development and a proven ability to work independently on complex projects while collaborating with a team.
• Experience developing robust backend systems using one or more of the languages: Go, Ruby.
• Proficiency in building and integrating Rest APIs, and webhooks.
• Strong knowledge of databases, particularly MySQL, and experience designing efficient schemas.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure using GCP, AWS, K8s
• A proactive approach to problem-solving and a commitment to delivering high-quality products.
• Prior experience with monitoring and alerting systems, and a willingness to participate in on-call rotations.
• Effective at collaborating with technical and non-technical team members.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with subscription systems or e-commerce platforms.
• Experience working with GraphQL APIs.
• An understanding of modern checkout and payment experiences.
• Keen interest in a wide variety of engineering topics like infrastructure and cloud management, analytics (we use BigQuery)

If you’re excited about building scalable systems that empower millions of users and passionate about what’s next in music, we’d love to hear from you!

 About us:

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops, and enrichment opportunities
• You can contribute to our Engineering Blog

Benefits:

• Not located in Berlin? No worries, we offer extensive relocation support including allowances, one-way flights, temporary accommodation, and by partnering with Expath, on the ground support on arrival
• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Professional development allowance
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
• We offer free German courses at beginning, intermediate and advanced
• Various snacks, goodies and 2 free lunches weekly at the office!

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status. 

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.