Backend Engineer, Spotify

Platform & Partners Consumer Experience

Salary not provided

Java

Grafana

BigQuery

Git

Junior, Mid and Senior level

London

3 days a week in office

Commercial music streaming service

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Commercial music streaming service

1001+ employees

B2CMusicEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMobile

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

Java

Grafana

BigQuery

Git

Junior, Mid and Senior level

London

3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CMusicEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMobile

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

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You feel comfortable with Java code and have contributed to the development and maintenance of a few backend services
You are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
You are comfortable working with modern infrastructure and tools
You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery and automated testing
You’re familiar with the design of distributed and scalable systems and enjoy being part of a team that owns services with millions of users
You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions
You are fluent with: Git, BigQuery, Grafana, JUnit, PagerDuty

What the job involves

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Platform & Partner Experience studio
Our teams are responsible for all of Spotify’s consumer experiences in platforms like desktop, web, TVs, smart speakers, cars, wearables, and partner application integrations to make Spotify available wherever our users are
We are working together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their own part of the Spotify ecosystem, including writing code with high standards, hosting our services in Google Cloud Platform, monitoring our services, measuring quality, and guaranteeing service reliability
Some teams work with a feature like search, others focus on voice integrations or making it easy to deploy features on a certain type of client
You will join a team where everyone shares a common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability and continued development
Together we try to find new ways to create a phenomenal Spotify experience for all our users across the globe
Design, develop and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
Build and operate infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines
Collaborate closely with other engineers and become a valued member of an autonomous, cross- functional team
Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call rotation
Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
Continuously improve our product by innovating on the service through the usage of A/B tests

Salary benchmarks

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

Top investors

23% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4)

Trustpilot (1.7)

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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