Backend Engineer, Spotify
Learning Infrastructure
Commercial music streaming service
Open for applications
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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 several years of experience in architecting, designing, developing and maintaining backend services and operating infrastructure at a scale
- You are highly skilled in core software engineering and have excellent coding skills in Java and also good knowledge in Python
- You fluently understand core data modeling concepts such as measures, dimensions
- You are deeply familiar with SQL-like languages and relational databases (nice to have experience with cloud warehouses, e.g. BigQuery)
- You are proactive in your communication, value team collaboration and healthy debate
- You have experience working in a high-ambiguity environment where taking initiative is expected - maybe you have been an early employee at a startup
What the job involves
- The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe
- Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers
- Design and implement high-scale services within the analytics domain
- Work across the full stack (backend, frontend, data) to bring features and solutions to life, although you will have a focus on backend
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional team and contribute to growing the skills and knowledge of your peers
- Facilitate the collaboration with other specialists, product owners, and designers to ensure we deliver the maximum value to our customers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
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.
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Company Specialist
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
Leadership
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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