Web Engineer in London

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.

We are seeking a seasoned and talented Web Engineer with a strong background in payments, web development, and JavaScript to join a focused feature team of three engineers. 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 support us on our mission: deliver the web infrastructure and features that fuel SoundCloud’s revenue engine. Better ad experiences keep users listening longer. Seamless checkout flows drive subscription growth. Our work directly impacts both the health of the business and the experience of every SoundCloud fan and creator.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Background and Experience:

• 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.

Bonus points for:

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

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 accommodate work from home. We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion at all levels of our organisation 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:

• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
• Generous professional development allowance.
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually.
• 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted, and foster children.
• We offer free German courses for all levels.
• 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.