At TuneIn, we are reinventing radio for a connected world with live sports, up-to-the-minute news, curated music, millions of podcasts, and over 120,000 streaming radio stations—streamed to tens of millions of customers through our mobile and web apps, and our unmatched platform of hundreds of consumer device and service integrations. From smartphones to smart speakers to electric cars, TuneIn delivers live and on-demand audio from voices you trust wherever you want to listen.
TuneIn is a leading live audio streaming service that offers a wide array of content, including live radio, sports, news, music, podcasts, and audiobooks. Embracing a remote-friendly approach, TuneIn empowers team members from various locations to contribute to its shared mission, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, guided by its core values of customer centricity, operational excellence and teamwork.
About the Position
This is a highly visible, high-impact role in which you’ll have a lot of say on what happens on product features from early brainstorming to how we implement features. As a key member of the web engineering team, you will lead the architectural direction of all TuneIn web products.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the design and architecture of complex web applications, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, translating requirements between Product, Design, and Platform teams.
- Contribute to code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices in code quality and performance, even when reviewing code with minimal context.
- Drive improvements to the codebase, continuously refactoring and modernizing the technology stack.
- Stay ahead of modern web technologies, researching and recommending library upgrades and optimizations.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering growth within the team.
- Work with performance optimizations, focusing on areas like image optimization, lazy loading, and enhancing page load times.
- Navigate external integrations, such as ad SDKs (e.g., DFP, Adswizz) and other third-party APIs.
- Ensure the reliability of multimedia streaming across multiple web-based distributions.
Who You Are
The Ideal Candidate will have
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling complex web applications.
- Expert in modern JavaScript (ES6+), including advanced language features and asynchronous programming.
- Strong proficiency in React and Node.js
- Adept architectural mindset, with experience owning large-scale web application architecture and design decisions.
- Proficient in full-stack development, including designing APIs.
- Experience guiding cross-team initiatives, influencing technical projects across multiple teams.
- Comfortable collaborating with stakeholders, translating technical needs and priorities between teams.
- Familiarity with modern build pipelines, such as Webpack, Vite, Bun, and Biome.
- A proven mentor who enjoys leading, teaching, and facilitating architectural discussions and code reviews.
Nice to Haves
While not required, there are some skills we highly value:
- Experience with multimedia streaming and technologies like the Native Web Audio API and hls.js.
- Familiarity with GraphQL and its ecosystem.
- Knowledge of modern React libraries, such as Zustand, and experience with frameworks like Next.js.
- Understanding of building multi-application flexible component libraries with libraries like Radix.
Our Perks
- Health and Wellness Reimbursement
- Accounting Reimbursement Program
- Continuous Learning Support
- Connectivity Allowance
- Technology Provision
- Home Office Upgrade Assistance
About TuneIn TuneIn, the world’s leading live audio service, brings together live radio, sports, news, music, podcasts, and audiobooks from around the globe. With more than 75 million monthly active users, TuneIn is one of the world's most widely used audio platforms. TuneIn broadcasts over 100,000 owned & operated and partner radio stations. With premier distribution across 200 platforms and connected devices including Tesla and Alexa, TuneIn empowers listeners to hear what they love wherever they are, including exclusive commercial-free stations from the minds of folks like Garth Brooks.
TuneIn Premium subscribers get additional exclusive access to commercial-free news from top networks like CNN, Fox News Radio, MSNBC, and Bloomberg, as well as live, can't-miss F1, MLB, NHL, and college sports. For more information, please visit us at Tunein.com or follow us on Instagram, or X.Workforce Privacy Policy To view our Workforce Privacy Notice, which covers how we treat candidate data, click here.Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
TuneIn is reinventing radio for a truly connected world by celebrating the human voice. We're an audio leader with a workforce as inclusive as our global audience. By offering unparalleled diversity of perspectives we connect people to the conversations that are most meaningful to them. We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within TuneIn. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of the best and brightest from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunities to excel.
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