We are Loop
We redefine what an earplug should sound, look and feel like. Whether it’s hearing protection or comfort for your ears, Loop enables you to live life at your volume. Our founders Maarten and Dimitri started Loop back with a big idea. And a chronic ringing in their ears. Since then, we’ve helped more than 3,500,000 customers around the world to find quiet, enjoy great experiences and keep unwanted noise at bay.
In 2023 we grew from almost 100 Loopers to over 250 people. And that’s a number we would have to keep updating every month, as we are planning to double the team once again, this year.
Our headquarters are based in Antwerp, but with hubs in Amsterdam, Shanghai, and New York, we’re dotted all over the globe.
Not to brag about it, but we’ve recently won the EY Scale up of the year award, the Deloitte Fast50 award (for the second year in a row) and a couple of other amazing (international) prices. The New York Times named us ‘best earplugs for concerts’ and thousands of noise-sensitive customers call us a ‘life changer’.
Here's more about Maarten & Dimitri's founders story: https://www.loopearplugs.com/blogs/blog/the-founders-story
Hybrid | Antwerp / Amsterdam / New York / Bay Area | 40 hours per week | 8+ years experience
At Loop, our mission extends beyond protecting hearing to transforming how people experience sound and silence in a connected world. Renowned for our iconic earplugs, we are expanding into connected earwear, hearables, and their companion digital applications. We are seeking a visionary Software Architect to lead architecture efforts across embedded firmware, cloud platforms, mobile app, and web, supporting the implementation of our future active product and digital roadmaps, creating seamless experiences for our users.
Software Architect: Pioneering Innovation Across the Digital and Connected Ecosystem
As a Software Architect at Loop, you will design and guide the software architecture that powers our entire ecosystem—from firmware to mobile and web applications. Your role will be critical in ensuring that all aspects of our software architectures deliver harmonious products, with unified and delightful user experiences. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to push the boundaries of what’s possible in the realms of sound, connectivity, and user interaction.
Your Responsibilities
- Comprehensive Architecture Development: Working with a cross-functional team, define and implement cohesive software architectures across embedded firmware, mobile, web, and cloud platforms, ensuring optimal partitioning for high volume, low power, consumer electronics devices.
- Strategic focus: Collaborate with product management and leadership to develop and execute product, app/digital, and technology roadmaps for digital and connected products. Lead the adoption of cutting-edge technologies, including low-power embedded, cloud, and mobile-hosted AI/ML solutions, to deliver exceptional user experiences while integrating best-in-class solutions to meet long-term business goals.
- Hands-on Implementation: Ready to roll up your sleeves and contribute directly to software design and development for any of the system components, delivering high-quality code, ready for high-volume adoption.
- Mentorship and Leadership: Guide and mentor engineering teams across disciplines, fostering a collaborative environment that encourages innovation and excellence.
- Technical Foresight: Stay at the forefront of industry trends and emerging technologies, ensuring Loop’s software architecture are cutting-edge and scalable.
How You’ll Succeed as a Software Architect:
Success in this role comes from merging technical expertise with strategic vision to ensure our digital ecosystem works harmoniously. You'll communicate complex concepts clearly and drive innovation, focusing on performance, scalability, and user experience. Key success factors include:
- Technical Expertise & Leadership: Extensive experience in software architecture across embedded systems, firmware, mobile, web, and cloud platforms, with a focus on high-volume, low-power consumer electronics, particularly in wearables. Develop and execute comprehensive software architecture strategies that align with Loop’s long-term goals, ensuring seamless integration of software and hardware into cohesive, efficient solutions for connected devices and digital applications.
- Roadmap & Product Collaboration: Proven ability to collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to support roadmap development, iterate on early product definitions, and lead multidisciplinary teams, driving collaboration and innovation
- Hands-On Engineering: Comfort and competence in contributing directly to software development across various components, ensuring high-quality code and architectural integrity.
- Problem-Solving & Communication: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to articulate complex technical strategies to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring alignment, understanding, and delivery of integrated, scalable, user-centric solutions
Location:
We are looking for candidates who can easily commute to our offices in Antwerp, Amsterdam, New York, or the Bay Area in California. This role offers a hybrid work environment, with the flexibility to balance in-office collaboration with remote work.
At Loop, we are passionate about transforming the way people experience sound and silence, and we are looking for a Software Architect who shares our enthusiasm for innovation and excellence. If you have the experience and drive to lead the development of an integrated digital ecosystem that empowers millions, we encourage you to apply and get in the loop!
Loop takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, experience, skill sets, qualifications, education, and other business and organizational needs. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise. Please note the range listed is just one component of the Company’s total rewards package.
Base Salary Range
$145,000—$190,000 USD
Why join us?
- In 2023, we won Scale-up of the year (according to EY — awarded December 2023), and we want you to scale and grow with us.
- Our culture? We’re all about enabling growth by giving our team full autonomy to manage their own projects, be a thought leader, and truly make an impact on the company.
- We take care of our people. So, we pay them what they’re worth. We benchmark each salary extensively against local market data.
- Flexibility: For us, hybrid and flexible working is all about trust. And we trust you to get on with your job, so there’ll be no micromanaging or peeking over your shoulder from us.
- Benefits: Our benefits are all aimed towards looking after your health, and enabling you to live life to the fullest. So everything from health insurance and retirement savings to the latest tools is covered.
Come as you are, our equal opportunities employer statement
Loop is an equal opportunities employer. We invest in diversity, ensure equality and encourage expression. We have a zero-tolerance policy for harassment, bias or discrimination towards applicants and employees.
Live life at your volume. 🎶 We'll take care of your ears.
