About us:

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.

We are looking for a S enior iOS Engineer** to join the SoundCloud Apple Platforms team , with a mission to deliver seamless, high-quality experiences across iOS, Apple Watch, and CarPlay that connect millions of users with the music and artists they love.

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)

Key Responsibilities:

You'll play a key role in shaping the SoundCloud mobile experience, helping users discover unique content and interact with the platform wherever they are.

This role offers a great opportunity to grow as an iOS engineer while shaping key parts of the SoundCloud experience across Apple platforms and making meaningful contributions to how users discover and connect with music.

• Develop and maintain SoundCloud's apps across Apple platforms (iOS, Apple Watch, CarPlay), delivering responsive, high-quality user experiences.

• Contribute to the modernization of our codebase by refactoring Objective-C and modularizing components using Swift and SwiftUI.

• Build and optimize UI components using SwiftUI, with a focus on performance, accessibility, and platform consistency.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams-including product, design, backend, and analytics-to define, build, and iterate on features.

  Support experimentation and data-driven product development by integrating A/B testing and tracking into mobile features.

• Take part in architectural decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices to ensure maintainable, scalable mobile development.

Background & Experience:

• Professional experience building iOS applications using Swift, with strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, SwiftUI
• Comfortable working in and improving large, existing codebases, including refactoring Objective-C and maintaining clean, maintainable code
• Eager to learn new technologies, experiment, and continuously improve as an engineer
• Skilled at working in cross-functional teams, proactively communicating, and breaking down complex problems into simple, elegant solutions
• Thrives in a collaborative, agile environment, while also capable of working independently and taking initiative
• Passionate about music, mobile development, and building intuitive, high-impact experiences for millions of users

Benefits:

Berlin, 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 heard
• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities
• 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 at beginning, intermediate and advanced
• 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.

Such processing is legally permissible under the regulation of the GDPR and BDSG, as necessary for the establishment of an employment relationship.

Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by SoundCloud to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on SoundCloud's behalf. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, your personal data will be transferred to the United States once you submit it through this site. The organization provides an adequate and sufficient level of protection in accordance with the Data Privacy Framework in conjunction with the EU adequacy decision.

Your personal data will be retained by SoundCloud as long as SoundCloud determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment, which typically does not exceed a period of six months from hiring an applicant for the advertised vacancy. If you would like us to take your data into account for future job advertisements, please let us know separately. With your explicit consent, we will retain your data for a maximum period of twenty-four months. Under the GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have the right to data portability and the right to object. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. In addition, you may lodge a complaint with an EU

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Demographic Questions Germany and UK

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Mission 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.

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When you apply to a job on this site, the personal data contained in your application will be collected by SoundCloud Inc. (located at 2 Gansevoort St., 6th Floor, New York, NY 10014, USA) if you are applying from the US and SoundCloud Global Limited & Co. KG (located at Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany) if you are applying from outside the US ("SoundCloud"). SoundCloud's data protection officer can be contacted by emailing [email protected]. Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing SoundCloud's recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes.