Senior Software Engineer, Deezer
Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris
Audio streaming platform
Open for applications
Audio streaming platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Deezer's mission is to bring audiences and artists together by embodying the thrill, intimacy, and delight of music discovery.
Role
Who you are
- 5 years of work experience on similar positions
- Experience at scale in production in microservices architecture and MLOps
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, REST/RPC/GraphQL APIs in distributed high performance production environments
- Experience with messaging solutions like Kafka or RabbitMQ in high performance production environments
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL RDBMS
- Hands-on experience with modern deployment, provisioning and monitoring tools (Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, Kibana, Grafana, to name a few)
- Fluent in at least one language among Python, Scala or Java
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments (Azure, Google or Amazon)
- Strong critical thinking and curiosity, and ability to communicate them efficiently
- Fluent in English or French
What the job involves
- Joining a team of engineers working in the Innovation division, you will work hand-in-hand with Researchers and Data Scientists to help develop and productionalize cutting-edge solutions and algorithms
- You will help build and maintain the highly qualitative production environment that involve:
- Processing a catalog of hundreds of millions of tracks and scale algorithms to serve millions of users worldwide
- Implementing, deploying and maintaining critical machine learning prediction engines for real time performance
- Mentoring less senior engineers on these same tasks
- Develop and maintain our current and future audio analysis pipeline, where all the audio files in the Deezer catalog is analyzed by cutting-edge machine learning models, implemented in Python and running in Kubernetes
- Develop and maintain out current and future data-science APIs in Scala (search, recommendation, business intelligence), and our online prediction endpoints
- Optimise our ML-OPS platform : our data stack for data-scientists and researchers to train, test, deploy and monitor their machine learning models
- Provide tools and technical support for data-scientists and researchers to work on their respective projects efficiently
- Actively participate in building the roadmap for the upcoming milestones. This implies interacting with stakeholders from other teams, understanding business needs, and proposing appropriate state of the art architectures
- Follow-up and mentor the less senior membres of our group, so it continues to be a tight-knit, effective, competent, enthusiastic and always growing team of engineers
Our take
Deezer is a listening app that lets users stream music, podcasts, and radio stations from multiple devices, also offering recommendations and smart playlists. This makes it a competitor of a giant in the sector, Spotify. While Deezer and Spotify are comparable in many respects such as interface, content music discovery features and pricing, Deezer currently has an edge in sound quality. However, it lacks the paying customer base of Spotify - while it has a healthy 16 million paid subscribers, Spotify is roughly ten times larger.
Neither company specialises in terms of media or region, so it’s hard to see how Deezer could carve itself out a distinct niche, and it risks falling behind in integrations with third-party platforms due to its relatively small market share. A major data breach of customer information in 2022 was badly handled, which won't help matters.
There is, however, an outside chance that Spotify could fall victim to their own success, having come under fire in recent years for its poor relationships with the artists on its platform. With a solid platform and considerable funding from a SPAC IPO Placement in 2022, Deezer may find itself in a position to pick up some of the windfall customers from fans dissatisfied with Spotify's response to this and other issues swirling around the giant.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2018
$168.3m
LATE VC
Jan 2016
$105.2m
SERIES E
Total funding: $512m
Company benefits
- Start-up environment and philosophy
- Highly motivated and product-focused people ready to drive innovation
- In-house Deezer Sessions with your favourite artists, gig tickets
- Hackathons & meetups
- Friday drinks, summer and winter parties
- A stocked kitchen with free drinks and snacks
- Areas to relax and collaborate with beanbags, guitars and table football
- An ‘at home’ vibe, with great outdoor spaces
- Gym access, with lunch-time yoga, pilates and thai boxing classes
- A Deezer premium family account for free
- Allowance for sports, travelling and culture
- Meal vouchers
Company HQ
Saint-Georges, Paris, France
Articles
Leadership
Jeronimo Folgueira
(CEO)Previously MD at Paddy Power Betfair, who went on to serve as CEO at Affinitas and then Spark Networks.
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