Remote Backend Engineer - Audiobooks

Description:

• At Spotify, we are redefining the audiobook industry with our innovative Audiobooks in Premium model.
• Our mission is to empower creators and consumers by delivering the best audiobook content with unmatched quality and accessibility.
• As a Backend Engineer on this team, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of Spotify’s Audiobooks business.
• You will help Audiobook creators engage with their fans by ensuring a magnificent user experience with our Spotify for Authors (SFA) creator tool and ingestion of audiobook metadata to our platform and partners.
• Your role will involve optimizing speed, quality, and flexibility in the backend systems.
• You will design, build, and optimize systems to support seamless user experience, processing, and ingestion of audiobook content.
• You will take ownership of adding new features and improving the Spotify for Authors (SFA) product.
• You will contribute to the foundation marketing technologies of SFA, enabling user engagement and audience growth.
• You will work closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to solve complex challenges and deliver innovative features.
• You will be responsible for system uptime, identifying and addressing bottlenecks to maintain high availability.
• You will write clean, maintainable, and testable code while mentoring junior staff.
• You will author and review technical RFCs to document approaches and cultivate shared understanding across teams.
• You will share your expertise to establish and uphold backend standard methodologies.

Requirements:

• You have professional experience working with backend technologies such as Java and/or Python.
• You are familiar with modern cloud platforms, preferably GCP, and tools like Docker for containerization.
• You understand distributed systems and have experience designing scalable, reliable architectures.
• You are interested in and/or familiar with modern web technologies such as Javascript, React, TypeScript, or Next.js.
• You have hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases, including schema design and query optimization.
• You are passionate about building high-quality systems and ensuring they perform at scale.
• You have excellent communication and collaboration skills to ensure alignment across multi-functional teams.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, iterative environment and are eager to learn and adopt new technologies.

Benefits:

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best, within the UK, Sweden, or potentially other locations in the EMEA region.
• This role allows for remote work, excluding France due to on-call restrictions.
• The team operates within the GMT and CET time zones for collaboration.