The Freemium R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.

We in the Messaging product area are focused on building a robust and scalable messaging platform that can send personalized messages to the right user at the right time. Through our messaging platform, operators can create campaigns that send messages to listeners via email, push notifications, and in-app channels to enrich users' lives and connect them with valuable audio content, and to help the Freemium business grow. Our vision is to build the messaging platform and infrastructure that offers a fully personalized and ML-optimized experience for listeners throughout their user journey that powers every messaging campaign at Spotify.

We are looking for a backend engineer that shares our common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability, and continued development. You will closely collaborate with our internal customers to determine the best API and backend system design to scalably meet their needs. You will build the backend systems that power our application, scale highly distributed systems, and continuously improve our engineering practices. Above all, this work will impact how the world experiences music.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with key internal partners to determine how to scalably design backend systems and APIs
• Architect, develop, and operate Java services deployed to millions of users.
• Work with data engineers to build and maintain batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scio, Storm, Spark and the Google Cloud Platform.
• 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 awesome music sessions for users worldwide.
• Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company.
• Work on what you want during regular hack days and annual hack weeks.

Who you are:

• Experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations.
• Have written distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production.
• An interest in big data processing technologies.
• You love working in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly.
• You believe data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making.
• Have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Quality is important to you 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

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 345 million users.