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Engineering
Backend
Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them.
Location
New York or Remote Americas
Job type
Permanent
We are working together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their own part of the Spotify ecosystem, including writing code with high standards, hosting our services in Google Cloud Platform, supervising our services, measuring quality, and guaranteeing service reliability.
For this specific role, you will be working in our newly created multi-functional team in the US, collaborating with client and backend engineers to create some of the future distribution formats of the core mobile experience. As a backend engineer, you have an interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability, and continued development. Above all, your work will affect the way the world experiences audio & podcasts.
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 and become a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional team
Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, potentially including taking part in an on-call rotation
Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
Continuously improve our product by innovating on the service through the usage of A/B tests.
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 within the Americas 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 instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
Who you are:
You architect, design, develop and maintain Java code in symbiosis with a handful of other languages
You are interested in keeping up with current standard methodologies 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’re familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems and enjoy seeing millions of users running your code
You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to craft pragmatic solutions
Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off – fully paid – for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Spotify On Tour, join your colleagues on trips to industry festivals and events.
Learn about life at Spotify
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Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
Global COVID and Vaccination Disclosure
Spotify is committed to safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For the US, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols.
