Senior iOS/Infrastructure Engineer, Spotify
Commercial music streaming service
Job no longer available
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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
- We are looking for a talented and driven iOS Engineer with a specialization in Infrastructure
- You have 5+ years of proven experience in software development
- IOS development using Swift and Objective-C
- Managing and optimizing large-scale infrastructure and platform services
- You have a strong understanding of CI/CD principles and best practices
- You have a phenomenal ability to learn and expand your areas of expertise to tackle the problems in front of you
- You are an inclusive colleague and a true phenomenal teammate
- You have strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- You're passionate about your work, striving towards the goals of the team and, ultimately, the Spotify mission - “giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be passionate about it"
- Experience with CI tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, BuildKite or equivalent
- Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and tools for iOS (e.g., XCTest, XCUITest)
- Familiarity with identifying and resolving issues related to code quality and test flakiness
What the job involves
- As a Platform & Infrastructure Engineer in Client Platform you will play a crucial role in ensuring that our platform scales seamlessly and supports the rapid development and deployment of high-quality code
- The focus is to iteratively improve the speed and accuracy of PR builds, enabling our developers to deliver features faster and with greater confidence
- In this studio, we manage and optimize the infrastructure that supports the development of numerous Pull Requests (PRs) daily, ensuring that our platform can handle high volumes of builds efficiently
- This has to be balanced with maintaining robust systems that prioritize safety and reliability, ensuring that our development processes are resilient and dependable
- We also make sure to develop tools and processes to monitor and enhance code quality, with a particular emphasis on detecting and mitigating flakiness in tests and builds
- Your primary responsibilities will include improving the infrastructure that supports Spotify's cross functional teams, ensuring comprehensive testing processes, and optimizing our Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines
- Develop and Maintain CI Pipelines: Design, implement, and maintain CI pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable build, test, and deployment processes for iOS applications
- Automate Testing Processes: Create and improve automated testing frameworks and tools to ensure comprehensive test coverage and high-quality releases
- Collaborate with Development Teams: Work closely with iOS developers to integrate CI/CD and testing practices into their workflows and ensure smooth and efficient code merges
- Enhance Code Review Processes: Implement and maintain tools and processes for code review, to ensure code quality and consistency
- Monitor CI Systems: Continuously monitor the health and performance of CI systems, identifying and addressing bottlenecks and issues
- Write clean and maintainable code that will scale across a number of projects and distributed development teams
- Share knowledge, promote best practices, and collaborate with some of the best engineers in the company
- Improve developer experience, the team is driven by a strong focus on clean APIs and engineering efficiency
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
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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