Lead technical direction as a Staff Frontend Engineer at Sound, shaping the future of a new music economy.
Posted by employer 1 year ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
50% coding
Requirements
- Experience
- 6+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Frontend Engineer at Sound, the individual will lead the technical direction of the frontend team while actively contributing to the development of user-facing tools that enhance the music experience for artists and fans. Key skills include advanced proficiency in React and Typescript, along with experience in building reusable components and ensuring high code quality. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in frontend development who are looking to make a significant impact in a mission-driven environment. Sound's commitment to a supportive and collaborative culture in the evolving web3 space further enriches the role.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from sound.xyz's career page.
- sound.xyz has 1 other open role including Staff Software Engineer, Backend.
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Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer, Frontend role remote?
- Yes — sound.xyz lists this as a fully remote position.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 6 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Frontend role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: GraphQL, Next.js, NodeJS, React, TypeScript.
- What seniority level is this role?
- sound.xyz targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Frontend role at sound.xyz.
From the original posting
Sound is hiring a Staff Frontend Engineer to help shape the future of a new music economy that values artists and their music while connecting fans more closely to the music they love.
As Staff Frontend Engineer, you will lead technical direction for our engineering team while contributing as an individual contributor to our code base. You will help build and maintain our user-facing suite of tools. This includes our core song and artist pages for listening parties, artist tools, community management tools, governance and membership tools to empower the next wave of artists and their communities. You will be involved in product decisions and have a direct impact on the end user experience.
Responsibilities
Set the technical direction for the team and help guide frontend engineering vision
Create delightful user experiences with an eye towards performance and accessibility
Build reusable components, write unit & integration tests, and continually raise the code quality and developer experience bar
Lead the architecting of important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges
Design, build, and continually improve Sound's core frontend infrastructure
Act as a player-coach and champion code quality & developer experience
Mentor and train other engineers on the team
Must haves
6+ years of experience writing production software.
Live between GMT-8 and GMT-5 (North American timezones)
Advanced knowledge of React and Typescript
Nice to haves
Public contributions to open source projects
Experience with Next.js, GraphQL
Full-stack experience (NodeJS)
Sound's Benefits
Our vision for the future is ambitious: we want to honor the value of music by giving a million artists the opportunity to live off their music. Here are some of our benefits:
We offer top-of-the-line benefits, including health, mental health, dental, and vision insurance.
Remote-first teamwork with team and community members around the world
Work-from-home/remote office stipend
Team offsites for periodic collaborative strategy sessions in person
Passionate, supportive team dedicated to learning and growing together in web3
Sound is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, civil or family status, disability or race.