Backend Engineer @ Spotify

The Awareness & Acquisition team works to make sure Spotify is top of mind when users are looking for audio and to encourage our most dedicated users to tell their friends about Spotify. While we are best known for owning and building the Wrapped consumer-facing experience each year, we also work extensively in the SEO domain and experiment with various new features that drive organic growth.

Spotify is looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Awareness & Acquisition team. Our mission is to build in-app experiences that give strategic audiences more reasons to talk about Spotify with their friends, family, and other fans. We strive to fulfill this mission by building 0-to-1 features according to 3 strategic pillars: audio identity, time-sensitive moments, and fandom.

We’ve been collaborating with other teams for the past year to launch and expand Daylist, which is now available in many countries around the globe and streamed by millions of users daily. This year, we rolled out a new Voting feature that lets users participate in televised award shows by voting for their favorite artists directly in the Spotify app.

If you are interested in being a part of a multidisciplinary team building new and compelling user experiences, apply today!

What You’ll Do

Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to build end-to-end features for millions of users
Architect, develop, and operate Java services following good design and development practices
Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle for backend services - from inception and design, through deployment, operation and optimizationParticipate in evolving the team’s technical strategy and product roadmap
Drive forward technical initiatives, starting within your team and scaling them across Spotify
Work on what you want during regular hack days and annual hack weeks

Who You Are

You have an intermediate to advanced understanding of object-oriented programming concepts and architecture patterns
You have proven experience designing, implementing, and scaling cloud-native software components. Familiarity with providers like AWS or GCP is a plus
You enjoy working collaboratively on a full-stack team, using agile processes to deliver a project in incremental phases
You solve problems methodically and can investigate issues in complex systems
You care about quality, delivering high-quality products and supporting others to maintain a high standard.
You enjoy learning as well as teaching others. You are passionate about your work, pursuing the goals of the team and, ultimately, the Spotify mission - "giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it"

Where You’ll Be

We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
Where in the world? For this role, it can be anywhere in the North America region in which we have a work location
Prefer to work in an office environment? Prefer 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.
Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $122,716- $175,308 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include 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. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Backend Engineer

Spotify

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