Data Engineer, Spotify
Financial Data Platform
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Commercial music streaming service
Posted today
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Posted today
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
- We are looking for engineers who are excited to shape the future of financial data at Spotify. You will design and operate scalable pipelines that process billions of records
- If you thrive on building foundations that have broad, lasting impact, and want to work where financial data truly drives strategy, we’d love to work with you
- Experienced with Data Processing Frameworks: Skilled with higher-level JVM-based frameworks such as Flink, Beam, Dataflow, or Spark
- Comfortable with Ambiguity: Able to work through loosely defined problems and thrive in autonomous team environments
- Skilled in Cloud-based Environments: Proficient with large-scale data processing in cloud environments, preferably with experience in Google Cloud Platform
- Strong Analytical Skills: Adept at breaking down complex problems and communicating insights effectively
- Knowledgeable About Data Modeling: You treat data as a product, with strong data modeling capabilities
- Passionate About Clean Code: Committed to writing high-quality, maintainable code and building robust data pipelines
- Curious and Inquisitive: You have a deep curiosity about data and systems, always seeking to understand and improve them
- Skilled in large-scale data processing: Comfortable working with SQL and platforms like BigQuery
- Excellent Collaborator: You value positive relationships across technical and business domains
What the job involves
- As engineers in the Financial Data Platform team, we turn messy, fragmented realities into clean, reusable foundations. We build core datasets that represent key financial domains like Premium, Ads, and Royalties
- We create libraries and tools that empower others to produce and trust financial data at scale. We collaborate deeply with Finance, Product, and Data teams to unlock clarity and drive Spotify’s ambitions forward
- You will apply product thinking to financial data — managing the full lifecycle from sourcing to documentation to exposure. You will define abstractions that simplify complexity and create intuitive paths for our consumers. Together, we advocate for standards, champion quality, and build systems that others can rely on with confidence
- Acquire a comprehensive understanding of how financial data supports diverse consumer needs, from Finance to broader business customers
- Build core datasets and financial abstractions that serve as sources of truth for strategic and operational decision-making
- Design, prototype, and build scalable data pipelines that process billions of data points reliably
- Apply product thinking to data: manage the full data product lifecycle from sourcing to documentation and exposition, always prioritizing consumer needs and success
- Advocate for and implement effective data quality, engineering standards, and reusability
- Collaborate closely with engineers, data scientists, finance collaborators, and business teams to build flexible, intuitive data products
- Define data models and abstractions that simplify access to complex financial domains like Premium, Ads, and Royalties
- Contribute to building tools and libraries that enable other teams to build financial data products at scale
- Leverage mentorship and constructive feedback to foster accountability, growth, and collaboration within the team
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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