Backend Engineer

June 12, 2024

🗽 New York – Remote

Although this job is listed in New York, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Spotify is a global audio streaming service company that offers its users access to a vast library of music and podcasts. Known for its focus on delivering personalized listening experiences, Spotify employs data scientists, engineers, and client partners across various global locations to continuously innovate and enhance its offerings. The company fosters a strong culture of diversity, equity, and impact, emphasizing belonging and inclusion in its workforce. Spotify is not only committed to shaping the future of audio entertainment but also to making a positive societal impact, with initiatives focused on social and environmental issues.

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2008

📱 Media

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

📋 Description

• Collaborate with key internal partners to determine how to scalably design backend systems and APIs • Architect, develop, and operate Java services deployed to millions of users. • 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 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 4+ years of working experience as a Backend Engineer. Ideally you have worked with Java, and an additional language such as Go or C++ is a bonus. • 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 written 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 within the North America region in which we have a work location and is within working hours • Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone. • 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.