Senior Backend Engineer
Fan Commerce
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Spotify is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Fan Commerce engineering organization. In Fan Commerce, we're building the most valuable platform for artists and fans to connect with one another on Spotify. Our work empowers artists to build careers by selling goods and experiences directly to their fans on Spotify. Our areas of expertise include e-commerce, interactive experiences and an exploration of digital goods.
Location
New York or Remote Americas
Job type
Permanent
You’ll 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.
What you'll do:
- Be a technical leader within the cross-functional team you work and across Spotify in general.
- Coordinate technical projects across multiple teams within Spotify.
- Facilitate collaboration with engineers, product owners, and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems for delivering value to artists and fans.
- Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate Java services that serve users in a DevOps manner.
- Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company.
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with challenging tasks to solve and the freedom to acquire new skills in hack time, reading groups, lectures and a variety of internal training courses
Who you are:
- You have at least 5+ years of professional experience working in a product-driven environment.
- You are an experienced technical leader who’s capable of leading a team through complex Discovery and Delivery phases.
- You have expert communication and collaboration skills, who goes above and beyond to ensure alignment across disciplines.
- You’re excited about delivering end-to-end experiences and care about your software architecture across the backend, front-end and the APIs that glue them together.
- 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 zone for collaboration.
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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
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 brilliant. 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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by 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 with a community of more than 258 million users.
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 with a community of more than 381 million users.
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.
This role is not eligible for hire in Colorado, USA.