Staff Backend Engineer

April 25

Spotify

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Passionate music fans. Innovative tech pros. Perfect harmony. Join our band.

5001 - 10000

Description

• 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 to solve interesting and challenging problems. • 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. • Work with front-end, back-end and data engineers to scale a full stack architecture powering our AdTech Platform • Work with data engineers to build and maintain batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scio, Storm, Spark and the Google Cloud Platform. • Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team. • Collaborate with other leadership, 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 annual hack weeks.

Requirements

• You have experience working directly with stakeholders and Product leadership to understand, document and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations. • You are a visionary leader who has previously strategized, led and executed company-wide technical projects. • You are a technical leader who knows how to translate product and business concepts into tech and can drive large scale efforts across Spotify. • You have experience 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 have experience with engineering best practices and testing automation to build quality into software and systems.

Benefits

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them! • Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.