Fullstack Engineer, Spotify
Podcast
$132.9-189.9k
Commercial music streaming service
Posted today
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Posted today
$132.9-189.9k
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 experience building and operating production backend systems using Java, Ruby on Rails, or similar languages and frameworks
- You have some experience with React and TypeScript, or are eager to develop your frontend skills
- You are familiar with distributed systems concepts including asynchronous processing, service-to-service APIs, storage design, and observability
- You care deeply about the user experience for creators, not just the technical implementation
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas clearly across technical and non-technical audiences
- You have a growth mindset, are curious, and are not afraid to be experimental
- You care about agile software development and a culture of constant learning and improvement
- You have familiarity with or interest in podcast ecosystems and creator tooling
What the job involves
- The Podcast Mission develops strategies and builds products that serve creators and listeners
- As the #1 podcast platform in the world, we own the tools and features that give creators a great experience when producing, distributing, and monetizing their content while growing and engaging with their audience
- Wheelhouse is a creator experience team within the Podcast Mission
- Creators and publishers rely on us to distribute and manage their content across Spotify and beyond
- We build the surfaces they interact with every day and the backend services and APIs that power them, with a focus on making the entire publishing and content management experiences rock solid, fast, and responsive at scale
- We are looking for an Engineer II to help build and improve the tools creators use to manage and share their content
- You'll primarily focus on building scalable backend services and APIs, with opportunities to contribute to the frontend
- You'll collaborate closely with product and design to deliver experiences that serve creators worldwide
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services that power episode and podcast management workflows
- Contribute to user-facing surfaces and frontend experiences using React and TypeScript
- Be an active part of creating and evolving APIs and services that connect user experiences with scalable internal infrastructure
- Drive improvements to system performance and developer experience across the stack
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers across multiple teams to align on requirements and deliver integrated experiences
- Contribute to technical discussions, RFCs, and help shape platform decisions
- Support engineers around you and help maintain a high bar for code quality and operational practices
- Contribute to a culture of experimentation, ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning
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
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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