Data Engineer, Spotify

Financial Engineering

Salary not provided

SQL

Docker

Scala

Java

C++

BigQuery

Mid and Senior level

London

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Commercial music streaming service

Job no longer available

Commercial music streaming service

1001+ employees

B2CMusicEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMobile

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

SQL

Docker

Scala

Java

C++

BigQuery

Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

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

Degree in Computer Science or similar fields
4+ years of professional software engineering and programming experience (Java, C++, Scala)
3+ years of architecture and design (patterns, reliability, scalability, quality) of complex systems
Advanced coding skills and practices (concurrency, distributed systems, functional principles, performance optimization)
Professional experience working in an agile environment
Strong analytical and problem solving ability
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong ability in SQL
Experience in operating and maintaining production grade software
Comfortable with tackling very loosely defined problems and thrive when working on a team which has autonomy in their day to day decisions
Deep knowledge of software engineering standard methodologies
Experience performing analysis with large datasets in a cloud based-environment, preferably with an understanding of Google’s Cloud Platform
Comfortable communicating with stakeholders (customers, product managers, C-level management

What the job involves

Closely work with product managers and business partners to come up with innovative ideas and solutions to produce high quality data at scale
Define data models that tie together disparate data across the entire organization
Design, implement and maintain ETL pipelines
Continuously design, develop and test data driven solutions
Gain technical expertise in building a data platform at scale to solve business, product and technical use cases
Obtain hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and technology/languages such as BigQuery, Scala, Scio and Docker
Work hand-in-hand with data scientists to understand how to best detect fraud
Gain cross departmental exposure and flexibility to engage with many teams in the company in different countries in the world

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 (4.2)

Trustpilot (1.6)

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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