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Lead Full Stack Engineer, Insights

Berlin, London
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.

As a Lead Full Stack Engineer in our Insights team, you will take technical ownership of the tools that help the music industry discover its next stars. You will lead a high-performing, multi-disciplinary squad (Frontend and Data Engineering) focused on our strategic B2B products: the Artist & Repertoire (A&R) Dashboard and Fan Insights. This is an IC-heavy leadership role for a technical expert who wants to drive architecture and execution while maintaining a hands-on presence in the code.

This position reports directly to the Director of Engineering and is designed for an engineer with the potential and desire to transition into an Engineering Management (EM) role as the team scales.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own the end-to-end technical roadmap for the A&R and Fan Insights platforms. You will design scalable, secure systems capable of handling massive datasets with high performance.
  • Act as the technical lead for a small, expert squad. You will lead by example through architectural clarity, rigorous peer reviews, and a focus on maintaining high execution momentum.
  • Work as a peer to Product Managers and Designers to define requirements. You’ll turn vague business "wants" into concrete technical "hows," ensuring the team builds the right things in the most efficient way.
  • Ensure high technical standards across both Frontend and Data disciplines. While the team is highly capable, you are responsible for the overall technical health, consistency, and long-term sustainability of the codebase.
  • We operate with an AI-agentic mindset. You will champion "AI-native" development – leveraging modern agentic tools (like Cursor or Claude Code) to multiply the team's impact and identifying high-value opportunities to deploy agentic capabilities directly to our users.
  • Own the infrastructure and health of your domain. You’ll manage deployment patterns, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and ensure we adhere to modern security standards.
  • Leverage agentic workflows and AI-assisted engineering as a force multiplier to work at 10x the speed of traditional methods. 

Requirements:

  • You have a track record of architecting and scaling robust backend systems and high-performance services. You are a generalist who can navigate complex application logic or resolve infrastructure bottlenecks with equal ease.
  • The Stack:
    • Backend: Proficiency in Scala or Golang for building reliable services and a strong understanding of handling storage and querying of BigData (e.g., BigQuery, SQL).
    • Frontend: Comfort with Next.js and React—enough to drive architectural decisions and ensure best practices.
    • Infrastructure: Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and container orchestration.
  • Soft Skills & Leadership: You behave as a leader naturally. You can explain complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and have the ambition to grow into a formal management role.
  • You use modern agentic tools daily to accelerate your own work and are excited about the future of agentic software.
  • Bonus Points
    • Experience with AWS ECS.
    • Experience with Python and data orchestration via Airflow.
    • Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
    • Experience with large-scale data warehouses like BigQuery.

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

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 Equity Plan
  • Generous 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 when 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.

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