Backend Engineer - User Platform

Job Description

User Platform (UP) is a part of Spotify’s Platform mission. The Platform mission is responsible for building the tooling and support platforms for the engineering teams at Spotify. UP owns the platforms for authentication, authorization, user account data, and user experience configuration at Spotify. UP was formed with the mission to provide a secure platform that helps users establish their identities and manage their account data on different surfaces. UP also enables teams around Spotify to experiment on and customize the user experience in new and more refined ways. User Platform is responsible for many of the core services needed for Spotify to function and provide 380M+ users across the world access to the audio experience they desire. We are looking for talented, engaged software engineers to join our teams who are passionate about working on highly available, low latency backend services that form the backbone of our product experience for hundreds of millions of users across the globe. At peak, we serve >2m requests per second to power tens of teams @ Spotify and handle serving >3TB of user account data to live services. You will also be able to innovate to create better, more seamless user experiences to help users access Spotify.

What you'll do

• Work across the stack in a cross-functional team that helps deliver a magical experience to all of our users around the world
• Design, develop, deploy and optimize high-efficiency backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability
• Deliver testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
• Share knowledge, promote standard methodologies, and collaborate with equally passionate members of your team
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, potentially including taking part in an on-call rotation
• Work in an environment that thrives with diversity and one that cultivates your individual growth by exposing you to exciting problems, a network of equally skilled peers, and the ability to acquire new skills through various mechanisms outside your day-to-day work.

Who you are

• You are an inclusive colleague and a truly phenomenal teammate
• Have a proven understanding of Java
• You are interested in keeping up with current standard methodologies in your areas of expertise
• You are comfortable running your software in a Linux environment
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming, and automated testing
• You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to craft pragmatic solutions
• Knowledge in one or more areas of Web, Data or Mobile Engineering is a definite plus
• You are not afraid to learn new skills in order to help your team achieve its goals.
• You're passionate about your work, towards helping your team achieve its goals and, ultimately, the Spotify mission of - “giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be passionate about it"

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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
• Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones 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 .

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. Global COVID and Vaccination Disclosure Spotify is committed to safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For the US, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols. Apply for this job