Backend Engineer, Spotify
Personalization
$122.7-175.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
Job no longer available
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$122.7-175.3k
+ 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
- At least 3+ years of backend engineering experience
- You have experience writing distributed, high-volume Java services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production
- You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
- You love working in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly
- You believe data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code
What the job involves
- Spotify is looking for a Backend Engineer to join the podcast and video team in Personalization. Our mission is to supercharge podcast discovery and video consumption through new formats and next generation recommendations.
- We are a highly collaborative team of engineers from multiple disciplines who are passionate about new challenges, product innovation, and building highly scalable distributed systems.
- We have experience in using new technologies to quickly prototype experiences as well as in building systems that serve content at scale for hundreds of millions of users. Our expertise ranges from Backend to ML and LLMs to Web. If you are interested in being a backend engineer on a team driving cutting edge user experiences, apply today!
- Design, develop, and deliver robust and scalable backend systems and APIs
- Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems and build new product features
- Leverage Spotify’s many data sets to create state of the art podcast and video recommendations
- Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code, adhering to coding best practices
- Participate in the improvement of our software development standards and practices
- Stay up-to-date with emerging backend technologies and best practices
- Be a member of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company
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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