You can now retrieve metadata for our full SoundCloud catalog through our API by providing the new filter in your request. Until recently…

It seems like a simple enough concept: You take data from how your users interact with your product, and you use it to make business and…

It seems like a simple enough concept: You take data from how your users interact with your product, and you use it to make business and…

In a product company, changes are inevitable so as to best support the strategy and the vision. Often during such a change, new teams are…

In a product company, changes are inevitable so as to best support the strategy and the vision. Often during such a change, new teams are…

As a part of our efforts to improve API use, we’re introducing a new object that’s more up to date with our current data model. The…

As a part of our efforts to improve API use, we’re introducing a new object that’s more up to date with our current data model. The…

Paging Doctor Software In the past, on-call duty was often associated with doctors, but in recent years, it’s become common for software…

Paging Doctor Software In the past, on-call duty was often associated with doctors, but in recent years, it’s become common for software…

SoundCloud’s iOS codebase faced a radical change a couple of years ago. The team had decided to modularize the codebase into frameworks…

SoundCloud’s iOS codebase faced a radical change a couple of years ago. The team had decided to modularize the codebase into frameworks…

Testing is at the heart of engineering practices at SoundCloud. We strive to build well-balanced test pyramids within our code repositories…

Testing is at the heart of engineering practices at SoundCloud. We strive to build well-balanced test pyramids within our code repositories…

I started my journey as an Engineering Manager at SoundCloud close to a year ago. This came after working as a Software Engineer for more…

I started my journey as an Engineering Manager at SoundCloud close to a year ago. This came after working as a Software Engineer for more…

“To me, legacy code is simply code without tests.” — Michael Feathers If untested code is legacy code, why aren’t we testing data pipelines or ETLs (extract, transform, load)? In particular, data pipelines built in SQL are rarely tested. However, as software engineers, we know all our code should be...

“To me, legacy code is simply code without tests.” — Michael Feathers If untested code is legacy code, why aren’t we testing data pipelines or ETLs (extract, transform, load)? In particular, data pipelines built in SQL are rarely tested. However, as software engineers, we know all our code should be...

As part of our efforts to improve our APIs, we’re introducing updates on how we paginate over tracks. This only affects developers and apps…

As part of our efforts to improve our APIs, we’re introducing updates on how we paginate over tracks. This only affects developers and apps…

Code refactoring is an essential part of the job of software developers. As time goes on, technology evolves, product requirements change…

Code refactoring is an essential part of the job of software developers. As time goes on, technology evolves, product requirements change…

DeveloperBridge is a year-long, full-time, paid traineeship program where participants learn from and work with engineering teams at…

DeveloperBridge is a year-long, full-time, paid traineeship program where participants learn from and work with engineering teams at…

Please also see Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge and Part 2: The Recruiting Perspective and Results…

Please also see Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge and Part 2: The Recruiting Perspective and Results…

Please also see Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge Among the engineering groups at SoundCloud, backend…

Please also see Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge Among the engineering groups at SoundCloud, backend…

Most SoundCloud backend engineers have good feelings about the old backend engineering take-home challenge. It’s commonly been characterized…

Most SoundCloud backend engineers have good feelings about the old backend engineering take-home challenge. It’s commonly been characterized…

A previous post on this blog ended with the following paragraph: “We might also replace JSON with a more efficient serialization protocol…