# Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

**Company:** [Sound.xyz](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sound-xyz)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, Node.js, Unit Testing, Integration Testing
**Posted:** 2025-06-30

> Leads technical direction and frontend engineering vision as a staff engineer, building reusable components, core infrastructure, and user experiences for music platform tools while mentoring the team. Requires 6+ years experience, advanced React/TypeScript expertise, and North American timezones.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for the team and help guide frontend engineering vision
- Create delightful user experiences with an eye towards performance and accessibility
- Build reusable components, write unit & integration tests, and continually raise the code quality and developer experience bar
- Lead the architecting of important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges
- Design, build, and continually improve Sound's core frontend infrastructure
- Act as a player-coach and champion code quality & developer experience
- Mentor and train other engineers on the team

## Must Haves
- 6+ years of experience writing production software
- Live between GMT-8 and GMT-5 (North American timezones)
- Advanced knowledge of React and Typescript

## Nice to Haves
- Public contributions to open source projects
- Experience with Next.js, GraphQL
- Full-stack experience (NodeJS)

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