Junior Backend Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
• Build and operate infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines
• Collaborate closely with other engineers in the team and product area and also across Spotify (our group of stakeholders is wide and diverse) and become a valued member of our team
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call and goalie rotation
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
• Continuously improve our product by innovating on the service and being close with other development and product teams

Who You Are

• You hold a degree in computer science or similar subject and have at least 1+ years of working experience in a similar backend engineering position
• You are comfortable designing, implementing and maintaining systems with Java in symbiosis with a handful of other languages when needed (e.g Python, Scala) and know what clean code is
• You are able to reason about trade offs of different databases and preferably have hands on experience with SQL and No SQL ones 
• Our engineers are T-shaped, which means being capable of using the right technology as a tool when needed. If you have some data engineering experience or are keen to learn it - that’s a bonus!
• You are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
• You are comfortable working with modern infrastructure and tools
• You are comfortable running your software in Linux environments
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming and automated testing
• You enjoy seeing millions of users running your code
• You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms

Where You’ll Be

• For this role you will be based in London.