Senior Software Engineer, Platform

At TuneIn, we are reinventing radio for a connected world with live sports, up-to-the-minute news, curated music, millions of podcasts, and over 120,000 streaming radio stations—streamed to tens of millions of customers through our mobile and web apps, and our unmatched platform of hundreds of consumer device and service integrations. From smartphones to smart speakers to electric cars, TuneIn delivers live and on-demand audio from voices you trust wherever you want to listen.  

Location: Remote from Ukraine or Poland 

The Role

As a key member of the core platform engineering team, you will work directly with business and technical stakeholders to lead and execute a variety of projects focused on improving our internal tooling, business processes and partner offerings, building new internal web-apps, APIs and microservices. While working on these projects you will hold responsibility for full life-cycle management, including requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment to production, and postproduction ownership.

What you will do

• Design and build services and applications that allow us to support and manage our portfolio of products serving tens of millions of users
• Profile and optimize algorithms used for import of media catalogs using formats like OPML, RSS, RadioDNS and others
• Design, Develop and Support web-applications providing custom Content Management, Configuration Management and A/B Testing
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and users of Tools to distill and formalize the requirements
• Collaborate with other developers to ensure architectural fit and seamless integrations of Tools-related services into the user-facing apps and systems
• Create technical specifications for new products, executing from start to finish and owning the quality of the service in production
• Follow the best practices around code ownership, testability, quality and documentation
• Create and enhance integrations with external partners like Amazon, Microsoft, Sonos, Tesla, and Google
• Maintain and extend heterogeneous environments, including our core .NET codebase and our set of services written in Node.js and Go
• Maintain and extend API services, SDKs and developer documentation.

What we are looking for 

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, specializing in modern web stacks and the design, development, and deployment of high-volume web applications and APIs (millions of transactions per day)
• Working knowledge of both relational and NoSQL database design and management (here at TuneIn we are using MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Snowflake, Redshift and more)
• Expertise with object-oriented languages such as C#, Go, Java, or Ruby
• Familiarity with microservices, knowledge of modern cloud services (such as AWS or similar)
• Working knowledge of web technologies, including HTML, CSS and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Practical perspective on software engineering discipline, focus on learning and delivering, and passion for high quality
• Great energy and enthusiasm with a positive, collaborative working style, clear communication and writing skills.  Enthusiasm for audio content preferred
• Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent experience. Masters degree is preferred

Behaviors 

• Excel in communication of all forms; as adept a listener as a speaker!
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships inside and outside of your team
• Think, plan, and manage strategically, balancing technology and business demands, without losing sight of the essential tactical details
• Creatively problem-solve and see your solutions through to successful implementation
• Embrace change and are highly adaptable
• Take pride in your work and share your knowledge with others
• Act as a trusted leader and a lifelong learner
• Embody TuneIn’s values

Our Perks: 

• Health and Wellness Reimbursement
• Accounting Reimbursement Program
• Continuous Learning Support
• Connectivity Allowance
• Technology Provision
• Home Office Upgrade Assistance