Remote Backend Engineer - Music

Description:

• We seek a skilled Backend Engineer to join the Music department within Spotify.
• This team develops both consumer and industry-facing products that provide creators with new opportunities to promote their work, reach new audiences, and strengthen their connections with fans.
• The role involves building structured, high-quality backend solutions to improve products and deliver better experiences to users and the global artist community.
• Responsibilities include working with a full-stack team to build and launch backend services, collaborating with product, insights, design, and engineering teams, and designing, developing, and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability.
• The engineer will build and operate infrastructure, toolsets, and deployment pipelines, take operational responsibility for team-owned services, and participate in an on-call rotation.
• The position supports individual growth and encourages continuous product improvement through A/B testing.

Requirements:

• A strong command of backend development standard processes and a consistent track record of delivering DRY, maintainable code that scales across all levels of production-level traffic is required.
• Comfort with Java code and experience in contributing to the development and maintenance of backend services is essential.
• Interest in keeping up with current best practices in backend development is necessary.
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure and tools is expected.
• Knowledge of sound engineering practices like continuous delivery and automated testing is important.
• Familiarity with the design of distributed and scalable systems and enjoyment in being part of a team that owns services with millions of users is required.
• A good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and the ability to apply them to craft pragmatic solutions is necessary.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Git, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Grafana, JUnit, PagerDuty, and Data Structures & Algorithms is required.

Benefits:

• The United States base salary range for this position is $125,562 - $179,374 plus equity.
• Benefits include health insurance, six months of paid parental leave, a 401(k) retirement plan, a monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave.
• The salary range encompasses multiple levels, with leveling determined during the interview process based on relevant work history and interview performance.
• Spotify is committed to inclusivity and provides reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process to support all candidates.