We are looking for a Staff Software 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 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.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Be a technical leader within the team you work with and
within Spotify in general.
- Coordinate technical projects across teams within Spotify.
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product
owners, and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems
for delivering various media worldwide.
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional
agile team.
- Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate Java services
that serve millions of users in a DevOps manner.
- Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community
affecting and driving our architecture across the company
- Hack 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 Music Recommendations, Features for Artists, and
User Experience.
WHO YOU ARE
- You are an experienced technical leader.
- You have 10+ years of experience in designing and building
distributed, high-volume services in Java
- You are experienced with deploying and operating services
on Linux.
- 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.
- You can quickly scope the size and feasibility of projects of
all sizes.
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.