We are looking for backend engineers to join our team of talented
engineers that share a common interest in distributed backend systems,
their scalability and continued development. You will build the backend
systems that power our application, scale highly distributed systems,
and continuously improve our engineering practices. Our mission in our
ad tech team is to improve the ad experience for our users and
advertisers alike, and grow our advertising business to a market leader.
You will help us define and materialize our monetization vision. Above
all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music.
What you’ll do
- Help us materialize our long term ads vision by turning it to
tactical goals and requirements
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and
designers to solve interesting and challenging problems across our
ad platform.
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
- Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate Java services that
serve millions of users in a DevOps manner.
- Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community
affecting and driving our architecture across the company
- Hack on what you want during regular hack days and bi-annual
hack weeks.
- Work from our awesome office in New York City where we solve
problems in Monetization, Music Recommendations, Features for
Artists, and Social Networking
Who you are:
- You have experience working on ad tech products
- You have experience in designing and building distributed,
high-volume services in Java
- You have a good understanding of the advertising business and the
ability to bridge the gap between tech and product
- You contribute to the long term vision and strategy in your domain
of expertise
- You have experience leading large projects across several teams
- You are a skilled communicator and have a proven record of leading
work across disciplines
- You are a passionate mentor and teacher
- You take operational responsibility for the services you build and
maintain
- You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures,
and algorithms.
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high
quality code
- You may have experience with payments systems and/or
ecommerce products.
- You may have experience supporting external APIs and/or
developer communities.
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly
believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will
lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for
our users and our creators. This is something we value deeply and we
encourage everyone to come be a part of changing the way the world
listens to music.