Software Engineer - Audio
Tandem Health3 months ago
Stockholm, SwedenMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build and improve real-time audio streaming systems across the platform.
- Work across the media pipeline, including device capture, buffering, transport, streaming, transcription, monitoring, and quality assurance.
- Design and operate reliable, scalable infrastructure for large volumes of real-time audio data.
- Investigate and resolve production issues involving latency, connectivity, audio quality, and device compatibility.
- Collaborate with frontend, backend, infrastructure, AI, product, and platform engineers on end-to-end experiences.
- Improve observability, testing, and tooling for stable media systems.
- Help shape technical direction and engineering practices for real-time media systems.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating production systems involving audio, video, streaming, or other real-time data.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building reliable backend systems.
- Familiarity with real-time media technologies and protocols such as WebRTC, RTP, RTCP, and WebSockets.
- Experience troubleshooting performance, latency, reliability, and scalability issues in production environments.
- Ability to work across multiple layers of the stack and collaborate with engineers from different disciplines.
- Strong communication skills and a pragmatic approach to complex technical problems.
- Preferred: experience with large-scale audio processing pipelines, speech-to-text, transcription, conversational AI, or audio/video-centered products.
- Preferred: frontend development experience with React and TypeScript.
- Preferred: experience with C# and Windows-based development.
- Preferred: experience in healthcare, regulated environments, or other reliability-critical domains.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and company stock options.
- 30 days of paid vacation per year.
- 5,000 SEK wellness allowance plus an additional 6,000 SEK yearly for other health-related initiatives.
- Generous parental-leave top-up for new parents.
- Private medical insurance, mental-health support through Mindler, and a pension program.
- Social and team-building activities including off-sites, after-work events, and winter and summer parties.
- Primarily office-based work at the company’s headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Opportunity to work with AI, healthcare, and engineering teams and contribute to healthcare impact.
- A background check will be conducted before hiring because the company handles sensitive patient data.