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Senior Backend Engineer - Reporting and Insights

New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Oct 2025

💰 $170,000/yr($130,000/yr – $170,000/yr)

About the role

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud. SoundCloud is forming a new Reporting & Insights Team and seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the team. Soundcloud’s subscriptions systems connected to various payment processors and subscription management platforms such as Apple, Google, Adyen, and Recurly. This role will focus specifically on building and maintaining systems that handle the revenue side of subscriptions and all purchases across iOS, Android, and web platforms. There will be a strong emphasis on revenue reporting, revenue recognition, and financial integrations related to income streams. You will work closely with Backend, Accounting and Finance teams to provide dedicated technical expertise for revenue-related financial systems and integrations. You will be building a new system that ensures seamless and secure data flow for revenue tracking and reporting. This is an opportunity to directly impact our financial reporting capabilities and contribute to the efficiency of our revenue management processes.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and implement the backend infrastructure necessary to integrate with our payments processors, revenue systems and data pipelines
Work closely with the Accounting and Finance teams to understand their requirements and ensure technical alignment with financial reporting needs
Develop and maintain data transformation and validation processes to ensure accurate and consistent revenue data transfer between vendors, our internal systems and our ERP systems
Build and manage APIs and webhooks to facilitate data exchange between our payment processors and our existing systems
Refine and optimize existing data pipelines to accommodate the integration of vendors and enhance overall revenue data processing efficiency. Work with the Data/Insights team to ensure revenue data is properly reflected in overall data stores
Identify and resolve complex issues in data flow and system integration to ensure data integrity
Develop and implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the ongoing stability and reliability of the revenue reporting system.

Experience and Background:

Proven experience in designing and implementing complex backend systems
Being responsible for the systems you build, from planning and implementation to monitoring and improvement
Understanding of revenue recognition principles and processes, and experience working with revenue management systems
Strong proficiency in building and integrating REST APIs and webhooks
Experience in integrating third-party systems and managing data transformations
Experience in working with big data and databases like BigQuery to help compile and visualize reporting data
Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, K8s) and their application in scalable data systems
Ability to understand and work with financial data and collaborate with non-technical finance teams
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues
Experience with monitoring and alerting systems, with a commitment to ensuring data accuracy and system stability
Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and ensure high availability and reliability of critical revenue systems.

The salary range for this role is $130,000 - $170,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below!

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 accommodating work from home
We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and he