Software Engineer, Spotify
Financial Engineering
CA$103.3-147.6k
+ Equity
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Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$103.3-147.6k
+ 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 3+ years of professional experience building backend systems and data-intensive applications
- You are experienced with Scala or Java and at least one distributed data processing framework such as Scio, Apache Beam, Spark, or Flink
- You know how to design and build reliable backend services and scalable data pipelines that support business-critical workflows
- You have experience designing data models that enable accurate, high-volume financial processes
- You have worked with workflow orchestration platforms such as Flyte, Airflow, or similar technologies
- You care deeply about engineering fundamentals, including continuous delivery, automated testing, monitoring, and writing production-quality code
- You enjoy collaborating with cross-functional partners and translating complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions
- Experience working within financial, accounting, or other regulated data domains is a plus
- A Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field is a plus
What the job involves
- The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe
- Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers
- Spotify's Financial Engineering (FinE) organization ensures that as Spotify grows, our financial systems grow with it
- We build the infrastructure and tooling that finance teams across the company depend on to track revenue accurately, report reliably, and reconcile at scale
- The Oracles team sits at the heart of Spotify's financial infrastructure, building the data pipelines and backend services that power our subledger and accounting lifecycle
- As part of a broader Financial Engineering initiative, we're standardizing and scaling how accounting data flows across Spotify
- You'll partner with engineers, finance teams, and product managers to build reliable, scalable systems that simplify complex financial processes
- We're looking for a Software Engineer who enjoys building reliable, data-intensive systems
- You'll help shape the future of Spotify's financial data platform by designing robust data models, developing scalable backend services, and building high-volume data pipelines that power critical financial workflows
- Build, operate, and evolve scalable Scio data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform that process high-volume financial data with accuracy and reliability
- Develop and enhance Java backend services that power integrations across Spotify's financial ecosystem
- Design and evolve data models and datasets that support accounting, reconciliation, financial reporting, and operational insights
- Build and improve integrations with external financial systems to bring critical financial data into Spotify's financial ecosystem
- Partner closely with Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to translate accounting requirements into reliable, scalable technical solutions
- Improve the scalability, observability, and resilience of financial data pipelines and backend services
- Contribute to engineering best practices through continuous delivery, automated testing, monitoring, and thoughtful code reviews
- Help drive technical decisions that improve the long-term maintainability of Spotify's financial engineering platform
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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