Backend Engineer, Spotify
Subscriptions
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Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
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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
- You love collaborating with others
- You have 2+ years of proven experience working as a backend engineer and a willingness to grow
- You have a foundational understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms, with a willingness to learn and grow in these areas
- You have experience working directly with internal customers to understand, document and develop APls and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code
What the job involves
- The Subscriptions R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way
- Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time
- With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify
- We are a team working on defining the premium and free value propositions
- We own a system to define the product features that all our free, mid-tier and premium products have
- We are the central source of truth for all existing and new premium products and own datasets and APls that teams around us can use
- We are working on new systems to control pricing and discount availability for our premium products
- Besides this we also own a system for capping features (e.g. audiobook consumption, on-demand playback, and more)
- We are a new team and we have a good mix of investigation and implementation work and a lot of opportunities to lead initiatives of all sorts of sizes and complexity
- We are very fast-paced and have a culture of helping teams that we work with with what they need
- Work with an outstanding team of backend engineers on our product definition system and making it drive more features across all of our Spotify systems
- Work with squads across the Subscriptions mission on centralising the premium product portfolio
- Building out a new system to define product availability, pricing and discounts across Spotify markets
- Ensure timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Collaborate with key internal partners and stakeholders to determine how to scalably design backend systems and APls
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.
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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
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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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