Mixcloud

Backend Engineer

• Transform Encore into a more focused, intuitive self-serve platform for both musicians and customers, making it seamless and delightful to use.
• Bring systems-level understanding and stewardship of strategy to the tech/product team (and across the company)
• Pastoral mentorship of another full-stack engineer
• Maintenance of our tech infrastructure (keeping downtime to a minimum, and fixing critical bugs/team requests in a prioritised and timely manner)
• Continuous formation/refinement of tech projects of strategic importance (e.g, tech debt, stack modernisation)
• Deliver on the release cadence for tech/product projects of strategic importance
• Improve Encore key features including messenger, job listings, search and musician admin panels
• Continued build-out of the USA platform — SEO landing pages, musician-side functionality, and bringing the US experience up to parity with the UK platform
• Keep technical output closely and visibly aligned with commercial priorities, and always identify the highest-impact work and the next bottleneck to remove
• Keep the platform reliable — minimising downtime and resolving critical bugs and team requests in a timely, well-prioritised way
• Work with bespoke payment integrations, including Stripe for the US market
• Reduce tech debt on an ongoing basis — including migrating toward a more formalised meta framework and moving our WordPress blog off Digital Ocean and onto Railway

Lead JavaScript Engineer