Staff Backend Engineer, Spotify
$187.2-267.5k
Plus equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
Job no longer available
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$187.2-267.5k
Plus equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- You have experience working directly with stakeholders and Product leadership to understand, document and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations
- You are a visionary leader who has previously strategized, led and executed company-wide technical projects
- You are a technical leader who knows how to translate product and business concepts into tech and can drive large scale efforts across Spotify
- You have experience in big data processing technologies
- You love working in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly
- You believe data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making
- You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
- You care about quality and have experience with engineering best practices and testing automation to build quality into software and systems
What the job involves
- We are looking for Staff Backend Engineers to join our Free Product engineering organization. Our team is charged with scaling Spotify's Free Product
- Your work will impact our 230+ million active users and millions of artists either by working directly on product features or publishing and insight tools
- We are looking for engineers that share our common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability, and continued development
- You will closely collaborate with our internal customers to determine the best API and backend system design to scalably meet their needs
- You will build the backend systems that power our application, scale highly distributed systems, and continuously improve our engineering practices
- Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music
- Be a technical leader within the team you work with and within Spotify in general
- Coordinate technical projects across teams within Spotify
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers to solve interesting and challenging problems
- Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to determine how to scalably design backend systems and APIs to meet their needs
- Architect, develop, and operate Java services deployed to millions of users
- Work with front-end, back-end and data engineers to scale a full stack architecture powering our AdTech Platform
- Work with data engineers to build and maintain batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scio, Storm, Spark and the Google Cloud Platform
- Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
- Collaborate with other leadership, engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems, creating awesome music sessions for users worldwide
- Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company
- Work on what you want during regular hack days and annual hack weeks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company values
- Innovative: We move fast and take big risks
- Sincere: We have no time for internal politics
- Passionate: We revel in what we do
- Collaborative: We recognise that we're all in this together
- Playful: We don't take ourselves too seriously
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
Articles
Founders
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
People progressing
Joined as a Conversion Manager in the Growth Team. Promoted three times over seven years to Senior Director - Head of Growth.
Joined as a Customer Advisor. Since then has had the role titles Senior Advisor, Content Associate, Team Coach, and Operations Manager - Primary Support. Hurst is now currently the Business Operations Manager of Music.
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