Front-end Engineer (Product Engineering)

  • Full-time

Company Description

TIDAL is a global music platform that helps fans and artists fully immerse themselves in their love of music. By helping artists with their business so they can focus on their craft and offering experiences that elevate how fans engage with music, artists and each other, TIDAL is the best platform for artists, fans, and all things music.

Available in 61 countries, the streaming service has more than over 100 million songs and over 650,000 high-quality videos in its catalog, along with original video series, podcasts, thousands of expertly curated playlists, and artist discovery via TIDAL Rising. TIDAL is available in Free (US only), HiFi, and HiFi Plus tiers, with the HiFi Plus membership offering access to immersive audio features like Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) recordings, Dolby Atmos Music, and Sony’s 360 Reality Audio recordings; for a higher monthly fee that TIDAL redistributes back to artists.

TIDAL is part of Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ), a global technology company with a focus on financial services.

For more information, please visit www.tidal.com.

Job Description

The Product Engineering team is responsible for delivering the overall product experience for our Tidal App. This includes ensuring that our app is reliable, intuitive, and engaging, and that it delivers dynamic and personalized experiences to users.

For this position you will be responsible for implementing dynamic and social features of the app. This requires close collaboration with foundational teams at Tidal. Our focus is on supporting and keeping systems for experimentation, data gathering, user interfaces, and user experience up and running.

We are committed to deliver the best user experience across all main platforms, including iOS, Android, and Web.

This role involves working with a team of engineers, product managers and designers to create and implement features and functionality that provide an optimal user experience. You will design, develop, and maintain the web application, ensuring high-quality code, and scalability. 

The areas of responsibility include:

  • Developing and maintaining the web app (web client and desktop app) using React.js
  • The team works on many features in TIDAL’s music streaming apps: Presenting dynamic and personalized content, onboarding, My Collection (users’ favorites and playlists), public user profiles, Live, My Activity
  • Provide simple solutions to solve problems, write code which is easy to understand and maintain, for others and yourself
  • Care deeply about performance and accessibility
  • Stay updated on frontend technology, partner with the Core Web, QA and dev-ops teams to provide stable releases of application
  • Familiarity with CDP (customer data platform) or similar frameworks for eventing
  • Participate in product definition and road map decisions
  • Collaborating with the design team to ensure optimal user experience

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience developing production web applications
  • Advanced JavaScript and Typescript knowledge
  • Experience using frameworks and patterns in large JavaScript applications (like React/Redux, Vue, Angular or similar)
  • Experience writing tests (unit-, integration- and end-to-end tests)
  • Experience with and knowledge of web standards
  • Cross-browser development and debugging skills
  • Excellent written and verbal English as English is our company language
  • Bonus points:

  • Knowledge about Electron and Node.js
  • Interest in HiFi audio and/or other music interests
     
  • Global and remote

    TIDALs development teams are located in Oslo/Norway, but many of our new colleagues are remote - mostly from other European countries (Spain, Germany, Poland)

  • Permanent flexible work location - no mandatory office presence
  • Option to work up to 45 days/year from other (whitelisted) countries
  • Can assist in relocating to Norway

Additional Information

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.

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