Remote Backend Engineer - Music

Description:

• We are looking for a backend engineer with experience building data-intensive services and systems to join the squad.
• The team is dedicated to building the rights manager portal to support a broad range of use cases in unlocking UGC Video for the first time on Spotify.
• The ideal candidate will have experience in building 0-to-1 products in the music industry domain.
• This role will be a founding member and main driver of backend services that power capabilities for label and publisher rightholders to manage the usage of their rights-protected recordings and works within existing and new content types on the Spotify platform.
• As new content types scale on the platform, you will help scale this system to more use cases and a larger customer base.
• You will have ample opportunity to grow and develop your engineering and leadership skills through project ownership with the support and mentorship of senior and staff engineers on your team.
• Together with the team, you’ll build a supportive, inclusive team culture, ship iterative solutions against an ambitious roadmap, and have significant impact on Spotify’s company strategy and business model.

Requirements:

• You have a 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.
• You are experienced in designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java or similar languages.
• You have a working understanding of delivering data solutions using Scio and Scala.
• You have some exposure to data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, etc., and orchestration platforms like Flyte.
• You are accustomed to supporting high throughput user-facing systems in production and apply your learnings from prior incidents when building new features.
• You own your solutions end-to-end, from scoping tickets through to deployment and smoke testing your features in production.
• You ensure the quality of your code with modern testing, debugging, and automation techniques.
• You have a solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms.
• You proactively identify tech debt and work with your team to get it prioritized.
• You’re interested in rounding out your data skillset to make yourself a stronger web developer.
• You care about software architecture across the front-end, back-end, and the APIs gluing them together.
• You’re excited to learn new problem spaces and domains.
• You prioritize team success to create further opportunity for yourself and teammates.

Benefits:

• The United States base range for this position is $125,562 - $179,374 plus equity.
• The benefits available for this position include health insurance.
• You will receive six months of paid parental leave.
• A 401(k) retirement plan is offered.
• There is a monthly meal allowance.
• You will have 23 paid days off and 13 paid flexible holidays.
• These ranges may be modified in the future.