
Backend Engineer, Music
Spotify
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United 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