Backend Engineer, Spotify
Personalization
$102.2-145.9k
+ Equity
Commercial music streaming service
Posted today
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Posted today
$102.2-145.9k
+ Equity
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 writing distributed, high-volume Java services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production
- You feel comfortable reading and writing Python code
- 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
- You have practical experience with Kubernetes
- You have practical experience managing and operating scalable search engines like ElasticSearch or Vespa
What the job involves
- On the Personalization Team, we seek to understand the audio world better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual person and keep the world listening
- Everyday, hundreds of millions of people all over the world use the products we build, from Podcast Feeds to Discovery Weekly to DJ
- We're a team of technologists, product insight experts, designers, and product managers in Boston, New York, Stockholm, and London
- Spotify is looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Search team. Our mission is to help users efficiently find and discover content
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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