Fullstack / Backend Engineer, Spotify
Experimentation Platform
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 working experience in building scalable systems
- You are proficient in Java and Typescript/Javascript
- You have a solid backend foundation and you feel comfortable working across the entire tech stack and have a keen interest to develop your skills in new domains
- You have experience and knowledge from a broad set of technologies and practices, for example, experimentation, UX/frontend, API design and implementation, or cloud stacks such as GCP
- You are a generalist with a product-focused mindset, not afraid of stepping out of your role to get things done
- You have experience working in a high-ambiguity environment where taking initiative is expected - maybe you have been an early employee at a startup
- You show a deep knowledge of how to write robust, maintainable applications, and a reasonable understanding of how to work with distributed high-volume applications
What the job involves
- You will join a multidisciplinary team that shares the passion of bringing the best experimentation platform to the world
- As an engineer in our team you will have the opportunity to develop all your engineering skills - from core backend systems to sophisticated frontends
- Develop new high-scale services within the experimentation domain
- Work across the full stack (backend, frontend, data) with an emphasis on backend, to bring features and solutions to life
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional team and contribute to growing the skills and knowledge of your peers
- Facilitate collaboration with other specialists, product owners, and designers to ensure we deliver the maximum value to our customers
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with challenging work, the freedom to acquire new skills during hack days, through participation in thematic guilds, and through a variety of internal training courses
- Join our on-call rotations
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
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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