Backend Engineer II, Music

Job Description

Our Bet's mission is to "build the biggest, most trusted marketplace of live events, globally". How can we create more opportunities for our users to connect with artists and their community? How can Spotify better support the #1 revenue stream of our creator partners? How can Spotify improve the live experience from discovery to post gig experiences? Where will the live industry be in 3-5 years? What should Spotify’s role be in the live space? We are tackling these questions and more. In the Synth squad, we are looking for a thoughtful, well-rounded Backend Engineer, ideally with some knowledge of data engineering at Spotify to join our team to build our Live Events catalog systems: that's the systems behind surfaces like the live events feed ( open.spotify.com/concerts ).

What You'll Do

• Evolve and scale Spotify's backend and data pipeline systems for live event ingestion and distribution
• Ensure that our customers’ experiences are the very best they can be
• These customers include not only Spotify users who discover concerts through our platform, but also our internal teams who liaise with artists
• Lead engineering efforts of multi-phase, cross-squad projects for the Bet, by facilitating conversations, sequencing work, and assisting other engineers
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by the team, including taking part in an on-call rotation

Who You Are

• You are experienced with backend engineering at Spotify (i.e. Apollo/Java 8+), and have an intermediate to advanced understanding of distributed, high-volume services, JVM concepts and architecture patterns
• You have experience working within distributed systems and have designed highly-scalable systems across various projects
• You are comfortable with relational databases and working with big data using SQL and data analytics platforms such as BigQuery
• You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code
• You have experience working with data engineering pipelines in Scala and/or Python
• You have a drive to continuously improve team processes

Where You'll Be

• This role will ideally be located in the UK, Sweden or potentially one of our other EMEA locations *excluding Germany and France due to on call restrictions

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