Backend Engineer
Podsights
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At Spotify Advertising, our part of that mission is to build the next generation advertising platform for audio which can scale the freemium experience for hundreds of millions of fans and tens of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities to define the insights product for our business.
Location
New York or Remote Americas
Job type
Permanent
Spotify is hiring Backend Engineers to work on the Podsights product. Podsights is an industry-leading attribution platform for podcast advertising. We likely work with some of your favorite brands and publishers and handle over 10 billion events a month.
We are looking for engineers that share our interest in building backend systems and improving our engineering practices. You will collaborate with our internal customers to modify and create new features, quickly becoming an expert on our Django backend. As part of a small team, you will have a tremendous impact on the direction of our product.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with key internal partners to determine how to design back-end systems and APIs scalably.
- Architect, develop, and deploy Python services that power our podcast attribution platform.
- Work with our data engineers to build and maintain batch data pipelines in Airflow.
- Work with our front end engineers to build and test the APIs they use everyday to build our web applications.
- Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
- Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems, creating an awesome experience for our customers.
- Work on what you want during regular hack days and annual hack weeks.
Who You Are
- You have 4+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer working with Python or a similar language.
- You have 1+ years of experience working with Django or a similar web framework to create APIs. Experience creating GraphQL APIs is a bonus.
- You have experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements.
- You have written backend services and APIs and know how to deploy and keep them running production.
- You love working in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly.
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code.
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 Americas region in which we have a work location
- 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.
- Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time
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Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Spotify On Tour, join your colleagues on trips to industry festivals and events.
Learn about life at Spotify
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.
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