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Backend Engineer - Music

Spotify

Full-time
North America
$126k-$179k per year
music
engineer
java
scala
architecture
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We are looking for a backend engineer with experience building data-intensive services and systems to join the squad. We’re a team dedicated to building the rights manager portal to support a broad range of use cases in unlocking UGC Video for the first time on Spotify. The ideal candidate will have experience in building 0-to-1 products in the music industry domain. This role will be a founding member and main driver of backend services that powers capabilities that will enable an experience for label and publisher rightholders to manage the usage of their rights-protected recordings and works within existing and new content types (e.g., videos) on the Spotify platform.

Eventually as more new content types scale on the platform, you will need to help scale this system to more use cases and a larger customer base. You will have ample opportunity to grow and develop your engineering and leadership skills through project ownership with the support and mentorship of senior and staff engineers on your team. Together with the team you’ll build a supportive, inclusive team culture, ship iterative solutions against an ambitious roadmap, and have significant impact on Spotify’s company strategy and business model.

What You'll Do

  • Work with a fullstack team to build and launch backend services & data pipelines that power a new web application for our Right Holders content management system for Video.

  • Work closely with product, insights, design and other web and backend engineers to understand the needs our of external customers and internal partners (Music Expression, Content Platform, Financial Engineering, Licensing & Publishing).

  • Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality backend code.

  • Maintain data pipelines that undergird our Rights ecosystem.

  • Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs.

  • Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.

  • Work with external teams when needed to deliver consumer video experiences in the Spotify consumer application.

  • Contribute to a healthy, collaborative team culture in line with what we value.

  • Contribute to our team-wide product ideation in collaboration with other specialists, researchers, product managers, and subject-matter experts on the team.

  • Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with exciting work, the freedom to acquire new skills on hack days, reading groups, and a variety of internal training courses

Who You Are

  • You have a strong command of backend development best practices and a proven track record of delivering DRY, maintainable code that scales across all levels of production-level traffic.

  • You are experienced in designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java or similar languages.

  • You have a working understanding of delivering data solutions using Scio and Scala.

  • You have some exposure to data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, etc., and orchestration platforms like Flyte.

  • You are accustomed to supporting high throughput user-facing systems in production and apply your learnings from prior incidents when building new features.

  • You own your solutions end-to-end, from scoping tickets through to deployment and smoke testing your features in production.

  • You ensure the quality of your code with modern testing, debugging and automation techniques.

  • You have a solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigmsYou proactively identify tech debt and work with your team to get it prioritized.

  • You’re interested in rounding out your data skillset to make yourself a stronger web developer.

  • You care about software architecture across the front-end, back-end, and the APIs gluing them together.

  • You’re excited to learn new problem spaces and domainsYou prioritize team success to create further opportunity for yourself and teammates.

Where You'll Be

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North America region as long as we have a work location.

  • This team operates within the EST time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $125,562 - $179,374 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, a monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.

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Full-time
North America
$126k-$179k per year
8 Applicants
Posted 4 days ago
music
engineer
java
scala
architecture
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Backend Engineer - Music

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

We are looking for a backend engineer with experience building data-intensive services and systems to join the squad. We’re a team dedicated to building the rights manager portal to support a broad range of use cases in unlocking UGC Video for the first time on Spotify. The ideal candidate will have experience in building 0-to-1 products in the music industry domain. This role will be a founding member and main driver of backend services that powers capabilities that will enable an experience for label and publisher rightholders to manage the usage of their rights-protected recordings and works within existing and new content types (e.g., videos) on the Spotify platform.

Eventually as more new content types scale on the platform, you will need to help scale this system to more use cases and a larger customer base. You will have ample opportunity to grow and develop your engineering and leadership skills through project ownership with the support and mentorship of senior and staff engineers on your team. Together with the team you’ll build a supportive, inclusive team culture, ship iterative solutions against an ambitious roadmap, and have significant impact on Spotify’s company strategy and business model.

What You'll Do

  • Work with a fullstack team to build and launch backend services & data pipelines that power a new web application for our Right Holders content management system for Video.

  • Work closely with product, insights, design and other web and backend engineers to understand the needs our of external customers and internal partners (Music Expression, Content Platform, Financial Engineering, Licensing & Publishing).

  • Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality backend code.

  • Maintain data pipelines that undergird our Rights ecosystem.

  • Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs.

  • Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.

  • Work with external teams when needed to deliver consumer video experiences in the Spotify consumer application.

  • Contribute to a healthy, collaborative team culture in line with what we value.

  • Contribute to our team-wide product ideation in collaboration with other specialists, researchers, product managers, and subject-matter experts on the team.

  • Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with exciting work, the freedom to acquire new skills on hack days, reading groups, and a variety of internal training courses

Who You Are

  • You have a strong command of backend development best practices and a proven track record of delivering DRY, maintainable code that scales across all levels of production-level traffic.

  • You are experienced in designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java or similar languages.

  • You have a working understanding of delivering data solutions using Scio and Scala.

  • You have some exposure to data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, etc., and orchestration platforms like Flyte.

  • You are accustomed to supporting high throughput user-facing systems in production and apply your learnings from prior incidents when building new features.

  • You own your solutions end-to-end, from scoping tickets through to deployment and smoke testing your features in production.

  • You ensure the quality of your code with modern testing, debugging and automation techniques.

  • You have a solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigmsYou proactively identify tech debt and work with your team to get it prioritized.

  • You’re interested in rounding out your data skillset to make yourself a stronger web developer.

  • You care about software architecture across the front-end, back-end, and the APIs gluing them together.

  • You’re excited to learn new problem spaces and domainsYou prioritize team success to create further opportunity for yourself and teammates.

Where You'll Be

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North America region as long as we have a work location.

  • This team operates within the EST time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $125,562 - $179,374 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, a monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.

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