The opportunity
The Experience team designs Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world.
What you'll do
Design, build, and evolve scalable backend and data systems powering: Spotify’s content intelligence capabilities
Take end-to-end ownership of significant engineering projects, from technical: design and architecture through implementation and operation
Build reliable infrastructure for large-scale content processing across audio, video, text, and images
Create RFCs and contribute to architectural decisions within your squad and across connected systems
Develop reliable and cost-efficient systems for high-throughput data and content-processing workloads
Work with distributed data systems and large-scale content-management infrastructure
What they're looking for
- You have 5+ years of relevant engineering experience, with strong experience: in backend and/or data engineering
- You have deep expertise in either backend or data engineering and are: comfortable working across both disciplines
- You have experience building and scaling large-scale distributed systems
- You have strong programming experience in Java, Scala, and/or Python
- You understand how to design systems with scalability, reliability, performance, and cost in mind
- You’re comfortable taking end-to-end ownership of complex engineering problems
- You can translate technical problems into designs, RFCs, and executable engineering plans
- You communicate effectively and enjoy collaborating with engineering, product, and technical stakeholders
