Spotify

Backend Engineer, Music

Spotify

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $107,483 - $153,547 per year

About the role

  • Collaborate and advise on backend services and Pubsubs to expose data for consumption by other teams.
  • Work with Product to conceptualize and implement new ways of understanding the interplay between user happiness, track performance, and artist needs.
  • Leverage the most efficient practices in continuous integration and delivery.
  • Help us prioritize and address technical debt to ensure our systems are built for speed and reliability and have the ability to scale to meet changing needs.
  • Help drive optimization, testing, and tooling to improve data quality.
  • Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, specialists, and stakeholders, taking learning and leadership opportunities that will arise every single day.
  • Work in agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives and enhance tooling for squads within our product area.

Requirements

  • You have some experience with at least one backend programming language such as Java, Scala, Python, or similar (NodeJS experience is also a plus!)
  • Have strong fundamentals in computer science and previous experience building backend services at scale.
  • Have an interest and some experience with Scala and data engineering.
  • Have an understanding of distributed systems, data structures and architecture patterns.
  • Familiar with cloud providers like AWS or GCP.
  • Comfortable working collaboratively on a cross-functional team in a remote-first environment.
  • Have a growth mindset and eagerness to learn.
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 & Tools
JavaScalaPythonNodeJSbackend servicesdata engineeringdistributed systemsdata structuresarchitecture patternscontinuous integration
Soft Skills
collaborationleadershipgrowth mindseteagerness to learncross-functional teamworkcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilityprioritizationoptimization