Spotify
Full Stack Engineer - Spotify for Developers
Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them.
Spotify lets our users engage throughout a wide variety of home-grown and partner-built applications, delivering magnificent audio experiences to millions of fans wherever they are. To support such a rich ecosystem of products and devices, Spotify’s PlayX - SDK organization provides 'building blocks' that serve diverse stakeholders, including internal teams, large strategic partners, and home hobby enthusiasts via Spotify for Developers.
We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer who wants to contribute to this platform by developing tools & policies which align with multiple Spotify strategies and encouraging experiments & innovations while still protecting our core business needs. The ideal candidates are comfortable with both front and backend development – preferably with proven experience in Java and JavaScript.
We have an end to end responsibility for our systems, including system design and architecture, writing code with high standards, hosting our services in Google Cloud Platform, monitoring our services, measuring quality, and guaranteeing service reliability.
What you'll do
- Be part of a multi-functional team of different domain specialists working closely with internal teams and our large, active external developers' ecosystem.
- Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers to discover, develop, and operate a set of operational tooling which allows Spotify to effectively act on existing and emerging opportunities for our SDKs and APIs.
- Promote sound engineering practices and drive data-driven technical strategy and roadmaps.
- Mentor and act as a role model for your team members in efficient design techniques, quality thinking during development, and intelligent ways to deploy and monitor code.
- Initiate, influence, and drive technical projects spanning multiple teams to design, build, and scale the software systems and features.
- Thrive in an environment that supports your individual growth with exciting tasks and freedom to acquire new skills in hack time, reading groups, lectures, and internal training courses!
Who you are
- You are confident with modern JavaScript/CSS/HTML coding, testing, debugging, and automation techniques and some among TypeScript, React, Styled Components.
- You have solid knowledge of backend development in Java.
- You are experienced in working with data from a variety of storage technologies (PostgreSQL, BigQuery) and know SQL.
- You have good knowledge of architecture and design (patterns, reliability, scalability, quality) of microservices and cloud infrastructure.
- A bonus if you have experience with any of the following areas: GCP, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, GRPC, Protocol Buffers, and large scale data pipelines.
- You are comfortable with deploying and operating services in a cloud environment.
- Another bonus would be if you've been a technical leader or mentor supporting peers and engineering teams and encouraging best engineering practices.
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.
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 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.
Spotify is an audio streaming platform that delivers an extensive catalog of music, podcasts, and audiobooks, catering to hundreds of millions of users globally. It empowers artists by providing them with the means to monetize their creativity while offering fans unparalleled access to a diverse array of content, all driven by a passion for sound.
- Founded
- Founded 2006
- Employees
- 500+ employees
- Industry
- Media
- Total raised
- $2.6B raised
Full-Stack Engineer