Backend Engineer – Consumer Experience Mission

About Spotify

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There are millions of tracks on Spotify. So whether you’re working out, partying or relaxing, the right music is always at your fingertips. Choose what you want to listen to, or let Spotify surprise you.

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Position

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.

We are looking for engaged and enthusiastic Software Engineers to join one of our cross-functional, autonomous teams at Spotify’s Gothenburg office. Each of our teams take full responsibility for their own part of the Spotify ecosystem and work on end user features like playlist, your library or audio playback. You will join a team where everyone share a common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability and continued development. Together we try to find new ways to create a great Spotify experience for all our users at all times. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music. You will work in our Gothenburg office – we offer relocation packages if you do not currently live in Sweden.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and deploy backend services with 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, cross-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

Your qualification

• You are comfortable writing Java
• You are are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
• You are experienced 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 good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions