Web Engineer – Data Infrastructure

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Position

Spotify is looking for a Web Engineer to join their Data Infrastructure organization. Our team is charged with making Spotify the best company in the world that uses data. Your work will enable Data Scientists and Data Engineers to produce insights and process data at scale.

You will work with members of your team to build features and scalable architecture for web applications and services within Spotify. The technologies you are familiar with are less important to us than your ability to demonstrate practical experience of web application development, such as agile engineering methods backed by a deep understanding of software engineering best practices.

Responsibilities 

• Be an impactful contributor to the team to plan, design, and build elegant solutions
• Build and maintain scalable applications
• Bind our front and back end services together
• Monitor, test, and continuously optimize your designs
• Deliver testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
• Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, designers, and analysts
• Ensure that our user experience is the very best it can be
• Share knowledge, evangelize best practices, and collaborate with some of the best web engineers in the company
• Have the opportunity to participate in annual company-wide hack weeks

Your qualification

• You have at least 3+ years of experience in Web Development (User Experience thinking and skills are a plus)
• You are experienced with modern JavaScript coding, testing, debugging, and automation techniques
• You have some experience in Backend development and technologies such as Java or Python (only for particular teams)
• You are comfortable working in an agile environment, and are comfortable challenging yourself and your team to improve their ways of working
• You are adaptable and inventive and you are able to develop effective solutions to problems
• You care about the user experience and know how to build user-friendly web applications
• You have experience with continuous delivery and automated testing
• You care deeply about web technologies, business impact, usability, design and music
• You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and can communicate your ideas, especially to those not technologically proficient
• You value team success over personal success
• You hold yourself and others accountable
• You are willing to work from our awesome office in New York. We offer relocation packages if you do not currently live in New York