Data Engineer, Spotify
Revenue Platform
Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
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 demonstrate a clear interest in developing a T-shaped engineering skill set — aiming to build deep expertise in either data or backend engineering, while growing the ability to work effectively across both
- Experience with processing large-scale transactional and financial data, using batch/streaming frameworks like Spark, Flink, or Beam (with Scala for data engineering), and building scalable backend systems in Java
- You possess a foundational understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms, coupled with a strong desire to learn quickly, embrace feedback, and continuously improve your technical skills
- You’re familiar with cloud-native development and deployment, ideally within the Google Cloud Platform
- You think critically about system design and strive to build solutions that are reliable, maintainable, and auditable at scale
- You have good communication skills and can articulate your ideas and ask clarifying questions
- You thrive in ambiguous and fast-changing environments, and know how to make progress even when requirements are evolving
- You approach platform engineering with empathy for your users — prioritizing usability, configurability, and long-term sustainability
- You care deeply about code quality, testing, and documentation, and you aim to build systems that are easy to understand and operate
- You love collaborating across functions and bring clarity and alignment when working with engineering, finance, and product partners
What the job involves
- As engineers on this team, we design and maintain the backend and data platform capabilities that power millions of transactions each day with precision
- We build services that handle tax calculations, produce compliant financial records, and support regulatory requirements across global markets — all while staying agile to keep up with Spotify’s evolving business models
- We equip Finance teams with flexible, configurable tools that govern how revenue and taxes are applied across products, enabling rapid adjustments without needing deep technical expertise
- Our modular, process-oriented components simplify the development, maintenance, and scaling of the critical Order to Cash enterprise process that underpin Spotify’s financial operations
- Gain deep expertise in Spotify’s revenue platform, understanding how it enables financial operations, compliance, and strategic decision-making
- Design and implement scalable backend and data systems that process millions of transactions daily — supporting accurate tax calculation, billing, revenue recognition, financial configuration, and tax reporting
- Build intuitive, self-serve tools that empower Finance teams to define and manage product-specific revenue and tax configuration independently, without requiring engineering involvement
- Develop and enhance modular platform capabilities that encodes critical enterprise workflows, promoting consistency, reusability, and ease of maintenance across financial systems
- Lead the creation of new platform capabilities within the Tax Solutions space, focusing on Tax Reporting and global regulatory compliance
- Partner closely with Engineers, Product and Finance stakeholders to design systems that are scalable, auditable, and highly reliable
- Champion engineering best practices, strong architectural design, and operational excellence across backend and data platforms
- Foster a collaborative team culture rooted in shared ownership, constructive feedback, and continuous improvement
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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.
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