Staff Backend Engineer, Spotify

AdTech

$185.5-265.1k

This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. Plus equity

GCP

Python

GraphQL

Scala

Java

Kafka

BigQuery

Senior and Expert level

New York

Remote from US

Commercial music streaming service

Job no longer available

Commercial music streaming service

1001+ employees

B2CMusicEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMobile

Job no longer available

$185.5-265.1k

This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. Plus equity

GCP

Python

GraphQL

Scala

Java

Kafka

BigQuery

Senior and Expert level

New York

Remote from US

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

You have 6+ years of API experience - building APIs for internal and external customers
You have proven experience with Scala, Java, and/or Python
You have a strong understanding of web-based API technologies (REST, GraphQL, SSO, Token Management, OAS, IAM, etc)
You have experience with GCP, gRPC, PubSub, Kafka, and BigQuery
You have experience working in advertising technology at scale including ads measurement/conversion/attribution experience
You have experience defining technical requirements and establishing testing, monitoring, and integration plans for distributed endpoint ownership
You have an understanding of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
You have experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document, and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations
You love working in an environment where you can influence the technical direction of teams that seek to consistently deliver and iterate quickly
You have a deep understanding of system design and APIs at scale
We are looking for engineers that share our common curiosity about distributed systems, their scalability, and continued development

What the job involves

You’ll help us define and materialize our vision to improve the ad experience for our advertisers alike and grow our AdTech Team to be a market leader
You will collaborate closely with our core ads engineers to figure out the best way to build and scale an external facing advertising/marketing API
You will build the backend services that power our ads business, scale our Ads API for internal and external usage, guide the design of highly distributed systems, and continuously improve our engineering practices
Collaborate across multiple development teams and business units to identify, define, develop, modify, and implement reusable advertiser-facing services and developer-facing APIs
Architect, re-build, and iterate on backend systems with a privacy and security first attitude, and an emphasis on scalability and operability
Ensure the responsiveness, reliability, and performance of applications
Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
Be seen as a technical leader, valued contributor, and subject matter expert in API knowledge
Mentor and coach engineers for org-wide technical growth in an autonomous, cross-functional environment
Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend and API developer communities affecting and driving our architecture across the company
Work on what you want during regular hack days and annual hack weeks

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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