Senior Backend Engineer, Deezer
Customer & Monetization
Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris
Audio streaming platform
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Audio streaming platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Deezer's mission is to bring audiences and artists together by embodying the thrill, intimacy, and delight of music discovery.
Role
Who you are
- It have to be a Backend Developer with a passion for creating outstanding user experiences, an expert who combines technical brilliance to join our dynamic team
- 3+ years of experience in building high-traffic applications using PHP
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, SOLID design principles, and architecture in a Backend environment Knowledge of MySQL and how to optimize queries and database structures
- Experience in working on large and complex code bases at scale, in building high-traffic applications using PHP
- Strong problem-solving and performance optimization skills
- Excellent communication in English, both written and spoken
- Manage deployments and monitor metrics using Git, Kubernetes (K8s) and Jenkins
- Conduct code reviews to ensure performance, security, and maintainability
- A mindset focused on code performance & quality
- Knowledge of GO, GraphQL, TypeScript or Event Sourcing architecture is a big plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior backend Engineer to join the User Gowth team, composed of talented cross-disciplinary engineers (iOS, Android, Backend, Frontend), whose main objective is to optimize incoming traffic to bring new valuable users to Deezer’s service
- Mentor team members to grow their technical skills
- Drive architectural improvements and set coding standards
- Lead technical discussions and advocate best practices
- Define and implement cross-stack solutions along with your team’s members to solve customer’s problems and reach company’s objectives
- Work closely with Marketing teams to understand their needs and the tools they use
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment
- Share knowledge across teams and represent the group in internal communities
Application process
- If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application!
Our take
Deezer is a listening app that lets users stream music, podcasts, and radio stations from multiple devices, also offering recommendations and smart playlists. This makes it a competitor of a giant in the sector, Spotify. While Deezer and Spotify are comparable in many respects such as interface, content music discovery features and pricing, Deezer currently has an edge in sound quality. However, it lacks the paying customer base of Spotify - while it has a healthy 16 million paid subscribers, Spotify is roughly ten times larger.
Neither company specialises in terms of media or region, so it’s hard to see how Deezer could carve itself out a distinct niche, and it risks falling behind in integrations with third-party platforms due to its relatively small market share. A major data breach of customer information in 2022 was badly handled, which won't help matters.
There is, however, an outside chance that Spotify could fall victim to their own success, having come under fire in recent years for its poor relationships with the artists on its platform. With a solid platform and considerable funding from a SPAC IPO Placement in 2022, Deezer may find itself in a position to pick up some of the windfall customers from fans dissatisfied with Spotify's response to this and other issues swirling around the giant.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2018
$185.6m
LATE VC
Jan 2016
$116m
SERIES E
Total funding: $549.2m
Company benefits
- Start-up environment and philosophy
- Highly motivated and product-focused people ready to drive innovation
- In-house Deezer Sessions with your favourite artists, gig tickets
- Hackathons & meetups
- Friday drinks, summer and winter parties
- A stocked kitchen with free drinks and snacks
- Areas to relax and collaborate with beanbags, guitars and table football
- An ‘at home’ vibe, with great outdoor spaces
- Gym access, with lunch-time yoga, pilates and thai boxing classes
- A Deezer premium family account for free
- Allowance for sports, travelling and culture
- Meal vouchers
Company HQ
Saint-Georges, Paris, France
Leadership
Jeronimo Folgueira
(CEO)Previously MD at Paddy Power Betfair, who went on to serve as CEO at Affinitas and then Spark Networks.
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