Backend Engineer, Spotify
Music Monetisation
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Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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're looking for an engineer who values team success over personal success and is comfortable navigating ambiguity
- The ideal candidate will be someone for whom the excitement of rapid product development is a draw
- You are experienced with Java and have an intermediate to advanced understanding of distributed, high-volume services, JVM concepts, and architecture patterns
- You have experience designing, implementing, and scaling cloud-native software components on providers like AWS or GCP is highly desirable
- You are deeply familiar with SQL-like languages and relational databases
- You are experienced in the architecture and design (patterns, reliability, scalability, quality) of microservices and cloud infrastructure
- You have a growth mentality, are curious, and are not afraid to be experimental. You share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
What the job involves
- We are looking for a thoughtful, well-rounded Backend Engineer, to join our team to build our Live Events catalog systems: the systems behind surfaces like the live events feed (open.spotify.com/concerts)
- In Live Events you'll help both fans and artists connect over what shows are available and around them
- Evolve and scale Spotify's backend systems for live event ingestion and distribution
- Ensure that our customers’ experiences are the very best they can be. These customers include not only Spotify users who discover concerts through our platform, but also our internal teams who liaise with artists
- Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by the team, including taking part in an on-call rotation
- Work with squads across the organization to develop and scale the platform
- Be hands on and deliver on complex backend tasks that bring the joy of Live music to Spotify users
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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