Senior Backend Engineer, Spotify
AdCo
$160.1-228.7k
+ Equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$160.1-228.7k
+ Equity
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
- You have 5+ years of working experience with Java and/or Scala
- You have experience working with cloud services (GCP, AWS, Azure) and containerization tools (Kubernetes, Docker)
- You have written distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production
- 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 constantly experiment and iterate quickly
- You believe data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making
- You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
- You care about quality and know what it means to ship high-quality code
- You can work with some level of ambiguity and are an effective communicator across stakeholders
What the job involves
- Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video
- We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers
- This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators
- Advertising R&D brings value to Spotify through our ad platform, allowing us to monetize the free tier and podcast content with ads
- The AdCo Studio works on building a best-in-class self-service advertising platform, as well as delivering and commercializing the Ads API, business management functionally, tools to enable operational scale, and much more
- Collaborate with key internal partners to determine how to design backend systems and APIs scalably
- Architect, develop and operate Java services deployed to millions of users
- Work with data engineers to build and maintain batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scio and Flink
- Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, multi-functional agile team
- Identify and remedy hard-to-understand problems
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve problems
- Mentor junior engineers and be a proactive team member
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 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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