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Backend Engineer - Advertising

Spotify

Full-time
North America
$123k-$175k per year
advertising
engineer
java
big data
architecture
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Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.

We are looking for Backend Engineers to join our Advertising Product & Technology organization. Our teams are charged with scaling Spotify's Free Product and our Podcast Monetization Mission. You will work directly on an array of product features, advertiser publishing tools, and insights and reporting functionalities. You will collaborate  with our cross-functional teams to ideate, develop, and own complex technical solutions on our fast-paced podcast and ad services technology platforms.

Our team at Spotify looks for candidates that share our common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability, and continued development. In this role, you will closely collaborate with our internal customers to figure out the best API and backend system design to scalably meet their needs. You will build the backend systems that power our application, scale highly distributed systems, and continuously improve our engineering practices. Above all, this work will impact how the world experiences music.

What You’ll Do

  • 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.

Who You Are

  • 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.

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 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.

The United States base range for this position is $122,716.00 - $175,308.00, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process.  Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. These ranges may be modified in the future

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.

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Full-time
North America
$123k-$175k per year
25 Applicants
Posted 6 months ago
advertising
engineer
java
big data
architecture
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Backend Engineer - Advertising

Spotify
The job listing has expired. Unfortunately, the hiring company is no longer accepting new applications.

To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs

Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.

We are looking for Backend Engineers to join our Advertising Product & Technology organization. Our teams are charged with scaling Spotify's Free Product and our Podcast Monetization Mission. You will work directly on an array of product features, advertiser publishing tools, and insights and reporting functionalities. You will collaborate  with our cross-functional teams to ideate, develop, and own complex technical solutions on our fast-paced podcast and ad services technology platforms.

Our team at Spotify looks for candidates that share our common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability, and continued development. In this role, you will closely collaborate with our internal customers to figure out the best API and backend system design to scalably meet their needs. You will build the backend systems that power our application, scale highly distributed systems, and continuously improve our engineering practices. Above all, this work will impact how the world experiences music.

What You’ll Do

  • 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.

Who You Are

  • 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.

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 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.

The United States base range for this position is $122,716.00 - $175,308.00, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process.  Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. These ranges may be modified in the future

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.

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