Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Backend @ TuneIn

We’re expanding our team in Poland, and we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our 3-person Streaming team.

The Streaming Team is responsible for processing, transcoding, and distributing much of TuneIn’s exclusive audio content. We have built a highly-available distributed platform for streaming live audio at internet scale. Our stack is a modern architecture of containerized microservices written in Go running in a Kubernetes cluster using AWS infrastructure (with Lambdas, CloudFront, Aurora, DynamoDB, Kafka, etc.).

Our platform must support features such as dynamic ad insertion, dynamic content replacement, live rewind, and is designed to play streams 24 / 7 without interruption for maintenance or events such as node failures. We have a rich Golang codebase of over 200K lines of code, with ZERO legacy code to maintain. Our diverse problem set includes real-time streaming, distributed caching, large dataset processing, audio encoding, high availability, and fault tolerance.

In addition we also maintain a web app for stream management and content scheduling, which is used internally by multiple teams at TuneIn.

Note about working hours : Due to the global distribution of our teams, this role requires a flexible work schedule from 12 PM to 7 PM local time in Poland. This schedule ensures a two-hour daily overlap with our US-based team, facilitating smooth communication and collaboration on cross-functional projects. The adjusted hours are essential for maintaining alignment and effective teamwork across time zones.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years of experience working with scalable and distributed backend systems, and 2+ years of full-stack development
• Experience with Javascript / Typescript web development (React is a plus but not required)
• Strong foundation in databases, SQL, and NoSQL technologies.
• Experience building backend services / microservices
• Experience designing APIs for use by multiple stakeholders
• Experience in Go or an Object Oriented language (Rust, C++, C#, Java, etc) is required
• Experience with AWS is desirable but not necessary
• Experience with Kafka is desirable but not necessary
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker are desirable but not necessary
• Experience with media encoding standards, containers, and streaming is desirable but not necessary
• Experience with HLS streaming is a plus, but not required
• Experience with gRPC is a plus, but not required
• Superior communication and writing skills

We’re expanding our team in Poland, and we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our 3-person Streaming team.

The Streaming Team is responsible for processing, transcoding, and distributing much of TuneIn’s exclusive audio content. We have built a highly-available distributed platform for streaming live audio at internet scale. Our stack is a modern architecture of containerized microservices written in Go running in a Kubernetes cluster using AWS infrastructure (with Lambdas, CloudFront, Aurora, DynamoDB, Kafka, etc.).

Our platform must support features such as dynamic ad insertion, dynamic content replacement, live rewind, and is designed to play streams 24 / 7 without interruption for maintenance or events such as node failures. We have a rich Golang codebase of over 200K lines of code, with ZERO legacy code to maintain. Our diverse problem set includes real-time streaming, distributed caching, large dataset processing, audio encoding, high availability, and fault tolerance.

In addition we also maintain a web app for stream management and content scheduling, which is used internally by multiple teams at TuneIn.

Note about working hours : Due to the global distribution of our teams, this role requires a flexible work schedule from 12 PM to 7 PM local time in Poland. This schedule ensures a two-hour daily overlap with our US-based team, facilitating smooth communication and collaboration on cross-functional projects. The adjusted hours are essential for maintaining alignment and effective teamwork across time zones.

You know how to build elastic, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique growth requirements. You stay up-to-date with the latest architectural trends., You know how to design and construct new microservices from scratch, You feel ownership over everything you ship; you'd never call code "released" until you’re confident it’s correct. You pride yourself on effective monitoring, strong documentation, and thorough test coverage., You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether you’re working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of listeners, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience., You thrive when learning new technologies and don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions., You believe that a working proof-of-concept is the best way to make a point., You embrace DEVOPS philosophy and the use of infrastructure-as-code., You exercise good technical judgment to foresee and identify potential issues., You choose to mentor those around you and favor collaboration., You stay calm under pressure and can handle production escalations effectively (our product is live 24 / 7!)., You enjoy participating in front-end web development and are confident in your ability to add features and craft User Experience] Requirements : Backend, Microservices, Full Stack, Go, Object-oriented programming, TypeScript, React, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, HSL Streaming, gRPC Tools : Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Agile, Scrum. Additionally : Small teams, International projects, PTO, Wellness Stipend, Annual Learning Budget, Technology Stipend, Accounting Stipend, Welcome Bonus, Health Insurance Coverage, Flat structure.