Full Stack Engineer, Spotify
Podcast
$150-189k
+ equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
Posted today
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Posted today
$150-189k
+ 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 are experienced in designing and developing backend applications in Java
- You have a solid understanding of React, and TypeScript and are passionate about delivering end-to-end experiences and software architecture across the back-end, front-end, and the APIs that glue them together
- You have a growth mindset, are curious, and are not afraid to be experimental. You share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you
- Experience with infrastructure-related technologies is a plus
- You care about agile software development and a culture of constant learning and improvement
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas
- You have experience and passion for mentoring and encouraging collaborative teams
What the job involves
- This Backend leaning Full Stack role is part of the New Value area, a cross-functional team working across business, product, design, and insights to identify, evaluate, launch, and scale new content verticals and revenue models
- Our ambition is to evolve the Podcast Vertical into a general-purpose creator and publisher platform that delivers meaningful value to Spotify Premium and drives over $1B in incremental revenue
- You’ll play a key role within a diverse, distributed squad focused on subscriptions and fandom experiences - including Synced Feeds, the creator tooling that drives subscription awareness and conversion on Spotify; the Spotify Open Access API (SOA), which enables third-party - hosted subscriptions; and new first-party products in the subscription content space
- In the year ahead, the squad will focus on building a new, scalable version of Spotify’s native subscription offering, enhancing Synced Feeds, and evolving SOA
- Put together, these efforts are establishing a strong foundation for creators of all sizes to monetize their fans directly on Spotify
- Design, build and maintain scalable backend services (Java)
- Be an active part of creating and evolving APIs and services that connect user experiences with internal scalable infrastructure, while applying product requirements
- Drive improvements to system architecture, performance, and developer experience
- Develop and enhance our user-facing layer and frontend SDKs (React/Typescript)
- Collaborate closely with a talented group of engineers, product managers, designers and data specialists across multiple teams
- Contribute to technical discussions and help shape platform decisions
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
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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