We are looking for a backend engineer to join our team of talented
engineers that share a common interest in distributed backend systems,
their scalability and continued development. You will closely
collaborate with our internal customers to determine the best API and
backend system design to scalably meet their needs. You will build the
backend systems that power our application, scale highly distributed
systems, and continuously improve our engineering practices. Above all,
your work will impact the way the world experiences music.
PLEASE NOTE, THIS POSTING REPRESENTS MULTIPLE ROLES ACROSS VARIOUS
TEAMS
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to determine how to
scalably design backend systems and APIs to meet their needs
- Architect, develop, and operate Java services deployed to millions
of users.
- Leverage Spotify’s many data sets to create awesome
music recommendations.
- Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous,
cross-functional agile team
- Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to
identify and solve challenging problems, creating awesome music
sessions for users worldwide.
- Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community
affecting and driving our architecture across the company.
- Work on what you want during regular hack days and bi-annual
hack weeks.
- Work from our awesome office in Boston where we solve problems in
the areas of Music Recommendations, Personalized Sets, and
Music Understanding.
WHO YOU ARE
- 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 have experience writing distributed, high-volume services and
know how to deploy and keep them running in production.
- You have interest in big data processing technologies.
- 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 you know what it means to ship high
quality code.
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly
believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will
lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for
our users and our creators. This is something we value deeply and we
encourage everyone to come be a part of changing the way the world
listens to music.