Full Stack Engineer, Spotify
Audiobooks
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Commercial music streaming service
Posted today
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Posted today
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 professional experience working with modern web technologies such as Javascript, React, TypeScript, Python, AWS, Docker, and Next.js
- You are passionate about delivering end-to-end experiences and care about software architecture across the frontend, backend, and the APIs that glue them together
- You are proficient in backend development (preferably Java) and handling system uptime and reliability
- You have excellent communication and collaboration skills and go above and beyond to ensure alignment across subject areas
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code
- You value having fun, staying positive, and learning new things, and enjoy working closely together with your product team to bring value to your customers
What the job involves
- At Spotify, we are redefining the audiobook industry with our innovative Audiobooks in Premium model. We are enthusiastic about encouraging a growing ecosystem that empowers both creators and consumers of audiobooks. Our mission is to grow this dynamic business, enabling the best possible content to reach the market with the highest quality and accessibility
- This team is critical to achieving this mission, comprising cross-disciplinary members dedicated to ensuring that publisher-ingested audiobook metadata flows seamlessly through our pipeline, reaching Spotify and other distribution partners with speed, quality, visibility, and flexibility
- As a member of this team, your pursuit of continuous improvement will have a lasting impact on Spotify and creators for years to come
- You will work with a diverse and collaborative team to build features, tools, and a scalable architecture that empowers the creator and consumer segment for Spotify, as well as growth for the Audiobooks business. We value your practical experience in software development, particularly agile engineering methods and a deep understanding of good software practices
- As with many new products, your responsibilities will vary frequently. You'll be wearing multiple hats, working across different technologies, product domains, and teams. We seek someone passionate about thriving in this type of dynamic environment!
- Collaborate with a diverse team of engineers, product managers, and designers to solve exciting and high-reaching problems, delivering value to creators and listeners
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with challenging problems to tackle and the freedom to acquire new skills in hack time, guilds, lectures and a variety of internal training courses
- Deliver testable, maintainable and high-quality code and take operational responsibility for the components that you develop
- Author and collaborate on technical RFCs to document approaches
- Share your knowledge, promote best practices, and collaborate with some of the best web engineers in the company
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 at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few 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
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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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