Backend Engineer - Advertising

Job Description

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.