Backend Engineer, Spotify
User Platform
CA$103.3-147.6k
+ Equity
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Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$103.3-147.6k
+ 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’re a problem solver who loves seeing things through from concept to production and you’re eager to learn whatever skills are needed along the way
- You are a Fullstack Developer who understands the complexities of Server side vs Client side development and is interested in crossing the lines between Backend, Data and Front End
- You have 3+ years of experience with Java, SQL and ideally familiar with React, Typescript, Next.js
- You’re a collaborative teammate who values inclusion and open communication
- You have an understanding of the authorization domain and are eager to learn
What the job involves
- User Platform (UP) is a studio in the SAFE Alliance as part of Spotify's Platform Mission. The studio owns capabilities and infrastructure for Customer Identity and Access Management at Spotify
- The studio was established with a central mission: to connect users with Spotify and Spotify with its users. Its purpose is to provide a secure platform that allows users to establish their identity and manage their account data across various interfaces
- At the same time, it empowers teams across Spotify to reliably tailor the overall user experience to meet individual needs
- User Platform is responsible for many of the core services needed for Spotify to function and provide the 700M+ users across the world access to the audio experience they desire
- Lockness is the team that powers business authorization at Spotify. We own how access is defined and scaled across every vertical in the company
- As a full-stack team, we build foundational IAM capabilities that keep Spotify secure while enabling teams to move fast
- As a Backend Engineer, you’ll help build, maintain and scale the next generation of Business IAM, expanding our authorization platform in both depth and reach
- Design, develop, and deploy backend services and APIs that power Spotify's creator authorization systems
- Collaborate with different cross-disciplined teams on complex problems. This team works with almost all verticals at Spotify (Music, Audiobooks, Podcasts, etc.)
- Maintaining business-critical Spotify authorization systems, ensuring high availability, stability, and adherence to SLAs
- Embrace and promote sound engineering practices and contribute to a culture of high-quality, scalable, and reliable systems
- Actively contribute to our learning culture by sharing knowledge and mentoring other engineers
- Leverage AI to improve our systems, automate tasks, and drive business impact. We believe in "AI Fluency" and expect our engineers to be knowledgeable and willing to learn and apply AI to their work
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 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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