Android Technical Expert, Deezer
Audio streaming platform
Open for applications
Audio streaming platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Deezer's mission is to bring audiences and artists together by embodying the thrill, intimacy, and delight of music discovery.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience developing and maintaining Android applications at scale
- Deep knowledge of Kotlin and Android frameworks, including Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and modern architecture patterns
- A strong grasp of software craftsmanship: clean architecture, testing strategies, and performance optimization
- Experience working with large codebases and scaling apps to millions of users
- Familiarity with tools like GraphQL, Jenkins (CI/CD), and debugging/performance profiling tools
- Bonus: experience with Apollo, RxJava, ExoPlayer, KMP, or Google Ads Manager
- A passionate engineer who loves solving technical challenges and continuously improving
- A strong communicator who can work effectively across tech and non-tech teams
- An advocate for code quality, user experience, and team well-being
- Open-minded and curious about new trends — especially in AI and emerging technologies — and how they can improve developer workflows and product innovation
What the job involves
- Join the Messaging & Ads team, where we build and maintain the services powering Deezer’s ad delivery and CRM communications
- From in-app messages and push notifications to emails, we ensure the right message reaches the right user at the right time
- We work closely with the Ads Operations and CRM teams to support Deezer’s global engagement and monetization strategy
- This team is part of the Customer & Monetization startup — a product and engineering unit focused on maximizing user conversion, retention, and monetization across the full user journey: from first app open, to account creation, subscription, and renewal
- Our goal is to deliver fast, smooth, secure, and delightful experiences at every step
- As an Android Technical Expert, you’ll contribute both directly to our Messaging & Ads team and more broadly across the startup as a technical leader, across three key missions:
- Stack Expert & Mentor
- Guide Android engineers within the Customer & Monetization startup to grow their expertise and align on stack best practices
- Ensure technical alignment and cohesion within the Customer & Monetization Android team
- Foster collaboration and cohesion through dedicated rituals and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Help teams adopt modern Android development standards
- Technical Lead & Strategist
- Represent the startup in the global Android Community of Practice at Deezer
- Own the startup’s Android roadmap, driving initiatives to improve quality, reliability, and maintainability
- Be the go-to technical point of contact to arbitrate architectural decisions and lead cross-functional projects
- Oversee deployments and define monitoring strategies and technical metrics to ensure performance and reliability
- Individual Contributor & Builder
- Design and deliver innovative features within the Messaging & Ads team (e.g. , ad experiences, CRM tooling)
- Contribute to broader initiatives like CDP integrations, survey tools, and experimentation frameworks
- Write clean, scalable, and high-performance code, with a strong focus on user experience
Our take
Deezer is a listening app that lets users stream music, podcasts, and radio stations from multiple devices, also offering recommendations and smart playlists. This makes it a competitor of a giant in the sector, Spotify. While Deezer and Spotify are comparable in many respects such as interface, content music discovery features and pricing, Deezer currently has an edge in sound quality. However, it lacks the paying customer base of Spotify - while it has a healthy 16 million paid subscribers, Spotify is roughly ten times larger.
Neither company specialises in terms of media or region, so it’s hard to see how Deezer could carve itself out a distinct niche, and it risks falling behind in integrations with third-party platforms due to its relatively small market share. A major data breach of customer information in 2022 was badly handled, which won't help matters.
There is, however, an outside chance that Spotify could fall victim to their own success, having come under fire in recent years for its poor relationships with the artists on its platform. With a solid platform and considerable funding from a SPAC IPO Placement in 2022, Deezer may find itself in a position to pick up some of the windfall customers from fans dissatisfied with Spotify's response to this and other issues swirling around the giant.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2018
$188.7m
LATE VC
Jan 2016
$118m
SERIES E
Total funding: $555.9m
Company benefits
- Start-up environment and philosophy
- Highly motivated and product-focused people ready to drive innovation
- In-house Deezer Sessions with your favourite artists, gig tickets
- Hackathons & meetups
- Friday drinks, summer and winter parties
- A stocked kitchen with free drinks and snacks
- Areas to relax and collaborate with beanbags, guitars and table football
- An ‘at home’ vibe, with great outdoor spaces
- Gym access, with lunch-time yoga, pilates and thai boxing classes
- A Deezer premium family account for free
- Allowance for sports, travelling and culture
- Meal vouchers
Company HQ
Saint-Georges, Paris, France
Leadership
Jeronimo Folgueira
(CEO)Previously MD at Paddy Power Betfair, who went on to serve as CEO at Affinitas and then Spark Networks.
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