Backend Engineer - Music

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a fullstack team to build and launch backend services & data pipelines that power a new rights database to serve as a source of truth for Spotify.
• Work closely with product, insights, design and other backend engineers to understand the needs of external customers and internal partners such as Music Expression, Content Platform, Financial Engineering, Licensing & Publishing.
• Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality backend code.
• Maintain data pipelines that support the Rights ecosystem.
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs.
• Advocate and promote modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize engineering and organizational practices.
• Collaborate with external teams when needed to deliver consumer video experiences in the Spotify app.
• Contribute to a healthy, collaborative team culture aligned with company values.
• Participate in team-wide product ideation with other specialists, researchers, product managers, and subject-matter experts.
• Engage in an environment that supports individual growth through exciting work, hack days, reading groups, and internal training courses.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience in designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java or similar languages.
• Working understanding of delivering data solutions using Scio and Scala.
• Some exposure to data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, etc., and orchestration platforms like Flyte.
• Support experience with high throughput user-facing systems in production and applying learnings from incidents when building new features.
• Ownership of solutions end-to-end, from scoping tickets to deployment and smoke testing in production.
• Knowledge of modern testing, debugging, and automation techniques to ensure code quality.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms.
• Proactive identification of tech debt and collaboration with the team to prioritize it.
• Interest in expanding data skillset to enhance web development capabilities.
• Care for software architecture across front-end, back-end, and APIs.
• Eagerness to learn new problem spaces and domains.
• Team-oriented mindset to foster success and create opportunities for oneself and teammates.

Nice to Have

• Experience with supporting high throughput user-facing systems in production.
• Familiarity with data warehouses like BigQuery, Snowflake, and orchestration platforms such as Flyte.
• Interest in rounding out data skillset to strengthen web development.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in backend development, preferably in Java or similar languages.
• Experience with data solutions and data warehouses such as BigQuery or Snowflake.
• Knowledge of distributed, high-volume service design.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible work location with some in-person meetings in Stockholm.
• Support for individual growth through exciting work, hack days, reading groups, and internal training courses.