Full Stack Engineer

Are you ready to make a significant impact on how music creators connect with their global audience? Aquent is partnering with a leading audio streaming platform that is at the forefront of innovation, where your expertise will directly shape the future of video experiences for hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a dynamic team, owning features end-to-end and empowering creators with the tools they need to share their visual stories. Your work will not only enhance the platform but also directly influence the success and reach of artists globally, contributing to a vibrant ecosystem where creativity thrives.

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a talented engineer to join a dynamic team focused on delivering cutting-edge video experiences within a leading audio streaming platform. In this hands-on product engineering role, you will have the unique chance to own features end-to-end, from crafting intuitive user interfaces to developing robust backend services and scalable data pipelines. Your contributions will directly empower music creators, providing them with the essential tools to publish, manage, and grow their visual presence with a global audience.

What You'll Do

• Work as a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional Agile team, continuously experimenting, iterating, and delivering new product experiences.
• Build and maintain full stack features for a creator-facing platform, serving hundreds of thousands of music creators globally.
• Design, develop, and operate backend services using Java/Kotlin, while also building engaging frontend experiences with React and TypeScript.
• Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of video ingestion, transcoding, and delivery pipelines, serving a global user base.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data Science to solve complex problems related to video publishing, creator tools, and content operations.
• Contribute to the broader engineering community through shared libraries, engineering standards, and best practices.
• Serve as a technical leader and advocate for engineering quality within your team and across the organization.

Must-Have Qualifications

• You have 3+ years of professional software engineering experience working across frontend and backend systems.
• You're proficient in TypeScript and React and comfortable building backend services in at least one language such as Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
• You have a strong understanding of distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
• You value strong engineering practices, including continuous delivery, observability, defensive programming, and automated testing.
• You're experienced with modern infrastructure and development tooling, including containers, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• You're comfortable working through ambiguity, taking loosely defined problems, breaking them into actionable pieces, and shipping iteratively.
• You're a clear communicator who works effectively with cross-functional partners across Product, Design, Data Science, and Engineering.

About Skill:

Skill connects the best professional, IT, engineering, financial and administrative talent with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to benefits such as health benefit contributions, retirement plans with match and flexible spending accounts.

Skill is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.