Backend Engineer
Spotify
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Massachusetts, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $125,562 - $179,374 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Java
About the role
- Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to design backend systems and APIs
- Architect, develop, and operate Java services for millions of users
- Leverage Spotify’s data sets for creating recommendations
- Be a technical leader and contributor in an agile team
- Collaborate to solve problems and improve user recommendations
- Lead the Spotify-wide backend developer community
- Work on projects during hack days and hack weeks
Requirements
- experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document and develop APIs and systems
- experience writing distributed, high-volume services
- interest in big data and machine learning systems
- love for working in an experimental environment
- belief that data is a powerful tool for decision-making
- deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
- care about quality and knowledge of shipping high-quality code
Benefits
- health insurance
- six month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
- paid sick leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
JavaAPIsdistributed systemshigh-volume servicessystem designdata structuresalgorithmsbig datamachine learningquality assurance
Soft skills
collaborationtechnical leadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationagile methodologyexperimental mindsetstakeholder engagementdecision-makingcommunity leadershipadaptability