Backend Engineer, Spotify
Ads Data Platform
$122.7-175.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
Open for applications
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$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
- You have proven experience in data engineering with high-volume, heterogeneous data, ideally within distributed systems such as Hadoop, BigTable, Cassandra, GCP, AWS, or Azure
- You are familiar with data processing frameworks like Scio, GCP Dataflow, AWS EMR, and Apache Beam
- You have strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala
- You are committed to agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
- You have hands-on experience with orchestration tools like Airflow or similar
- You have excellent problem-solving and communication skills
What the job involves
- The ADP Measurement team is dedicated to assessing the impact of marketing activities throughout the customer journey
- Our mission is to help advertisers gauge the effectiveness of their marketing efforts
- As part of our team, you will play a key role in shaping and realizing our vision to enhance the advertising experience for our clients and establish Spotify as a market leader in advertising
- We are looking for data engineers to join our Advertising Data team
- Our team is charged with creating next-gen advertising measurement products
- You'll build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scio, Google Cloud Platform, and, Apache Beam
- Develop, deploy, and operate Java services that impact millions of users
- Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders, taking on learning and leadership opportunities that will arise every single day
- Maintain and enhance Spotify’s measurement pipelines, ensuring they remain business-critical
- Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines for efficient collection, processing, and storage of measurement-related data
- Make enhancements to data models and ETL code to improve pipeline efficiency and data quality
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Write scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders, embracing learning and leadership opportunities daily
- Monitor daily execution, diagnose issues, and ensure SLAs are met by maintaining and fixing business-critical pipelines
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
Articles
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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