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We are a team in the Freemium mission working on optimizing the customer journey. We are currently working on communicating the right value to the right users at the right time through a multi-channel messaging experience (email, push, in-app, etc), ensuring that all users retain and progress through every stage of the customer journey. Additionally we work closely with others teams within Freemium on the personalization of the sign-up/sign-in and onboarding Spotify experiences. We are a cross functional team applying Machine Learning across all our problem spaces.
What you’ll learn and do:
- Contribute to designing, building, evaluating, shipping, and refining Spotify’s product by hands-on ML development
- Collaborate with a multi-functional agile team spanning user research, design, data science, product management, and engineering to build new product features that advance our mission to connect artists and fans in personalised and relevant ways
- Prototype new approaches and production-ize solutions at scale for our hundreds of millions of active users
- Help drive optimisation, testing, and tooling to improve quality
- Be part of an active group of machine learning practitioners in your mission and across Spotify
Who you are:
- You have a strong background in machine learning, theory, and practice.
- You are comfortable explaining the intuition and assumptions behind ML concepts.
- You have hands-on experience implementing and maintaining high-scale, production ML systems in Python, Scala, or similar languages. Experience with TensorFlow is also a plus.
- You are experienced with building data pipelines, and you are self-sufficient in getting the data you need to build and evaluate your models, using tools like Apache Beam, Spark, or other distributed data processing frameworks.
- You preferably have experience with and cloud platforms like GCP or AWS.
- You care about agile software processes, data development, reliability, and focused experimentation
- You love your customers even more than your 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 EMEA 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 Central European time zone for collaboration
- We ask that our team members be located within Greenwich Mean time zone, Central European time zone, or Eastern European standard time zone for the purposes of our collaboration hours
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 320 million users.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
What you'll do
- Use your full stack experience to design intelligent solutions that include back-end and front-end systems.
- Be part of a multi-functional team of different domain specialists working closely with internal teams and our large, active external developers' ecosystem.
- Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers to discover, develop, and operate a set of operational tooling which allows Spotify to effectively act on existing and emerging opportunities for our SDKs and APIs.
- Promote sound engineering practices and drive technical strategy and roadmaps.
- Mentor and act as a role model for your team members in efficient design techniques, quality thinking during development, and intelligent ways to deploy and monitor code.
- Support in identifying and implementing measurements of success for the team.
- Initiate, influence, and drive technical projects spanning multiple teams.
- Collaborate closely with other teams within Spotify to architect, design, build and scale software components, systems, and features.
- Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team and take part in an on-call rotation.
- Thrive in an environment that supports your individual growth with exciting tasks and freedom to acquire new skills in hack time, reading groups, lectures, and internal training courses!
Who you are
- You have a strong proficiency in back-end development and technologies such as Java and Node.js.
- You are confident with modern JavaScript/CSS/HTML coding, testing, debugging, and automation techniques and some among TypeScript, React, Styled Components.
- You are experienced in working with data from a variety of storage technologies (PostgreSQL, BigQuery) and know SQL.
- You have good knowledge of architecture and design (patterns, reliability, scalability, quality) of microservices and cloud infrastructure.
- A bonus if you have experience with any of the following areas: GCP, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, GRPC, Protocol Buffers, and large scale data pipelines.
- You are comfortable with deploying and operating services in a cloud environment.
- You've been a technical leader or mentor supporting peers and engineering teams and encouraging best engineering practices.
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.
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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located that time zone.
- 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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm +/- 2 hours
What you'll do
- Be a leader of the Spotify engineering community, driving and influencing our architecture across the company.
- Drive best engineering practices within your team(s) by defining and teaching them.
- Acquire broad knowledge about our topology, in particular, our numerous platforms and partner integrations to be able to effectively represent them in conversations internally and externally
- Work hands-on in a team solving technical problems to deliver great value to users.
- Work efficiently with legacy code and suggest incremental improvements.
- Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your domain of expertise.
- Be a department-level expert in a particular area or the go-to person for solving problems in your field.
- Be a technical thought partner to department leadership and build trust with our strategic partners.
- Spread learning and knowledge across the organization, and advocate and help implement sustainable engineering practices.
- Facilitate collaboration between teams, departments, engineers, product managers, designers, and product insights specialists.
- Manage dependencies for complex projects in a fast-changing environment and bring clarity and focus.
Who you are
- Have proven experience as a technical leader for a team/department.
- Have several years of working experience in building user-friendly, data-rich, scalable applications.
- Have led technical projects spanning multiple teams.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and have the ability to exercise sound judgment and decision-making abilities
- A strong communicator and can easily explain a complex technical architecture to different audiences
- Have extensive experience working hands-on as a Software Engineer in an agile environment.
- Possess a deep understanding of the product and business goals which you can translate into tech.
- Have a detailed understanding of software development at scale, constraints and challenges, and apply them to systems and software development
- Show a deep knowledge of how to write robust, maintainable applications, and a reasonable understanding of how to build and work with distributed high-volume backend servers.
- Experienced in identifying, debugging and resolving complex production issues.
- Professional in mentoring engineering teams and encouraging best methodologies.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm +/- 2 hours
The Platform department builds the technology ecosystem that enables Spotify to learn and deliver quickly, while safely and easily scaling to billion customers, and enabling our rapid employee growth around the globe. Our team consists of six organizational units that reflect the needs and groupings of our internal customers. We support the craft and practice of designers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists by developing the frameworks, capabilities and tools they need to do their work effectively, quickly, and safely. We are an amplifier for efficiency, quality, and innovation across all of Spotify!
What you'll do
- Work with and improve the local development environment for our feature engineers
- Develop tooling for measuring development productivity and speed
- Developing impactful solutions to improve the speed of development for feature engineers
- Develop tooling for general developer productivity
- Innovate at a high pace to support development at scale
- Become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team
- Become a developer advocate improving technical communications with developers within Spotify and foster a deeper understanding to their problems and needs
Who you are
- You have several years of working experience as an Android engineer with Java/Kotlin. If you have experience in other languages and platforms such as C++, Python, iOS, low-level programming or productivity tools, that would be a bonus
- You have experience with XP, strong testing practices or CI/CD
- You are a solutions-oriented team player; you are flexible and ready to do what‘s best for your customers (in this case, the customers are other teams at Spotify)
- You have a great ability to learn, and you are eager to expand your areas of expertise
- You have a passion for supporting and enabling others to become more productive
- You have a strong quality mindset and care for the overall performance of the product
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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours
- Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located that time zone
- 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
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
What you'll do
- Mentor, coach and act as a role model for your fellow team members to help them grow in an informed and playful way.
- Take the lead on design and development of new functionality spanning multiple teams using the latest technology.
- Collaborate closely with your teammates and leads. Be a key player in building a strong team with high quality output and create a culture of innovation and playfulness.
- Operate the infrastructure we have in place with focus on high accuracy, reliability and data scalability, including taking part in our on-call rotation.
- Work closely with our business stakeholders and users during the full development cycle.
- Work in an environment that enables you to grow, in the direction you decide.
- Hack on what you want during regular hack days and annual hack weeks.
- Our systems are covered by financial legislation and you drive improving our automated change management controls.
Who you are
- A great team player. You enjoy working in a team, ask questions and accept the knowledge gap as you join.
- Have a Master's degree in Computer Science or relevant working experience.
- An innovator with ideas from diverse areas, such as system design, devops, distributed computing, etc.
- Have at least 5 years of professional software engineering and programming expertise (Java, Python or Scala etc) Java we use on a day to day basis.
- Have at least 3 years of experience in architecture and design work (patterns, reliability, scalability, quality) of complex systems.
- A great coder with advanced skills in areas such as concurrency, distributed systems, functional principles and performance optimization.
- A T-shaped engineer which means that your key proficiency is the backend stack but you have a drive to understand how data and frontend development work as well.
- Aware of the importance of CI/CD, and a strong advocate of automated quality assurance.
- Skilled in one or several cloud-based backend technologies.
- A proponent of microservice architectures and well-specified data APIs.
- Interested in understanding new complex business domains.
- A strong analytical problem solver and comfortable tackling loosely defined problems.
- Experienced in working with an agile development methodology.
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 EMEA 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 CET time zone for collaboration
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm +/- 2 hours
What you’ll do
- Collaborate with a small, autonomous team of developers, designers, and product owners to find end-to-end solutions to important problems
- Implement these solutions for our Android client, adhering to Android development best practices
- Help your team solve problems in a way that makes sense for Android users and our codebase
- Join dozens of other developers and help to shape the direction of Android development at Spotify
Who you are
- You have a deep understanding of modern Android development.
- You know how to write readable, maintainable, performant object-oriented Java/Kotlin.
- You are experienced with Android development tools.
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code.
- You have released at least one app or have a project in the works that you can tell us about.
- Open source experience is a huge plus!
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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located that time zone.
- 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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm +/- 2 hours
We are looking for engaged and enthusiastic Software Engineers to join our Core Infrastructure team. We build the foundation upon which hundreds of developers build the Spotify experience. You will join a team where everyone shares a common interest in designing, running and maintaining large distributed storage and database systems while striving for simplicity and high speed of development. Together we try to enable teams to find new ways for creating a great Spotify experience for our users. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music. Our team's mission is to provide an opinionated database layer to guide and support our internal developers. You will engage with peers and internal customers to understand workloads and design, build and operate services and tools to provide a great user experience for engineers interacting with our database layer. Our goal is to make Spotify’s persistent database and cache layer scalable, resilient and secure to a point that operational responsibility is a very small burden on users.
What you’ll do
- Have the ability to impact other squads' efficiency, across the entire company.
- Enjoy solving problems together in pairs or as the whole team.
- Collaborate closely with other engineers in an autonomous, cross-functional team.
- Design, develop and operate business-critical backend systems with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability.
- We're using industry-standard, cloud-native tech, which means easily transferable skills.
Who you are
- You are motivated by working collaboratively in teams and continuously improving by giving and receiving feedback.
- You care deeply about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, clean code and automated testing.
- Your passion for learning helps you solve problems in a creative way.
- You are experienced in designing, building and maintaining distributed systems.
- You have a systematic problem-solving approach coupled with effective communication skills and drive.
- You are able to apply your knowledge and experience in both structured and unstructured DB technologies to help improve our database offering.
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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located that time zone.
- 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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm +/- 2 hours
What you'll do
- Be a technical leader within the team you work with and within Spotify in general.
- Coordinate technical projects across teams within Spotify.
- Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate services and systems that provide the best developer experience possible
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and designers to seek exciting and challenging problems for delivering various media worldwide.
- Ensure the reliability of our platform, abiding by an SLA, setting SLIs and SLO
- Aid in levelling up our craft expertise through coaching and mentoring other engineers
- Ensure our systems are future proof and ready to support the scale of our business
Who you are
- You are an experienced technical leader.
- You know how to write distributed, high-volume services in Java.
- You are experienced with deploying and operating services on Linux in a cloud environment.
- You are comfortable with large scale production systems and technologies, for example, load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management.
- You have familiarity with and passion for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- 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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
- 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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm +/- 2 hours
Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them. We are looking for a Staff/Senior Staff Engineer to work as Architecture and system design experts who love to be hands-on and mentor teams and Senior engineers as part of our newly formed Technical Steering group for the Consumer Business Unit. This team is rethinking how our applications and content are crafted and developed, to bring increased flexibility and innovation in a highly distributed company and to keep improving the reach of our experiences to millions of listeners and creators. Would you like to play a key role to influence how we develop features at scale and help our product development teams move fast and bring outstanding experiences to our users? Come join us and you will take the lead on pursuing a class of business and technical opportunities that will have a technical and strategic impact on the whole company. This position is open for REMOTE EMEA (check out our different locations)
What you’ll do:
- Engage with system owners and senior technical leaders across the company to collaboratively articulate and implement plans for challenges that need evolution in systems architecture and new technical strategies.
- Crisply tell the story of problems, opportunities, strategies and plans for solving them.
- Design solutions to technical problems with the rest of key technical contributors and actively embed in engineering teams to do strategic and hands-on development to break down ambiguous and complicated technical problems.
- Actively work to keep solutions rooted in the realities of the challenges and opportunities and not be overly theoretical.
- Proactively build the architecture maps, without constraining the creativity of teams.
- Work to predict technical problems and opportunities for the future, and have a POV on what we need to do to get there.
- Identify and promote successful generalization and usage of systems designs and patterns to teams across the organisation.
- Educate and build opportunities for engineers and leaders to learn the methods to analyze and understand systems at scale.
Who you are:
- Have extensive experience designing, architecting and developing features and systems that power large scale applications.
- Master system modeling and designs, and critically evaluate multiple designs for their strengths and weaknesses to translate those into concrete and measurable deliverables.
- Have a detailed understanding of software development at scale, constraints and challenges, and apply them to systems and software development.
- Have worked within different tech stacks but are comfortable with modern mobile, backend and web development languages and frameworks.
- Work along and collaboratively with teams to thrive in constantly evolving environments.
- Passionate and confident communicator for tech problems and solutions and you are used to working with different stakeholders on multiple levels.
- Use sound analytical approach and are comfortable using data to drive tactical and strategic decisionsAre comfortable navigating ambiguity and have the ability to exercise good judgment and decision-making abilities and communicate.
- Are able to ask different varieties of questions and generate multiple possible statements of challenges, opportunities and hypotheses that can be tested.
- Care for growing psychological safety and a culture of learning from doing.
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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
- 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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+00:00) London +/- 2 hours
What you'll do
- Work closely with cross-functional teams of data scientists, product managers and engineers who are passionate about our consumer experience across platforms and partners.
- Surface valuable user behavior insights, from aggregate trends to individual device interactions.
- Communicate data-driven insights, working with the product team to build strong narratives and direct org-wide investments.
- Use ML to supervise existing services and build new products personalized by the user ubiquity experience.
Who you are
- You have relevant experience, with a degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics or another quantitative subject area.
- You have strong interpersonal skills and are comfortable working with a cross-functional stakeholder group.
- You know how to translate business concerns into data problems and come up with relevant answers and impactful insights.
- Experience with Google BigQuery or proficiency in SQL.
- Proficiency with Python or R.
- Experience in data pipeline / workflow development with large datasets (Scala experience preferential).
- Experience with applied machine learning for clustering, classification, and regression.
- Experience with statistical modelling (such as time series forecasting and A/B testing).
- Experience with data visualization and dashboarding (Tableau or Python/R plotting libraries).
- Experience crafting analytical data layers and in conducting ETL with large and complex data sets.
- Cloud platform familiarity and competency e.g GCP.
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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
- 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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm +/- 2 hours
What you’ll do
- Collaborate with a small, autonomous team of developers, designers, and product owners to find end-to-end solutions to important problems
- Implement these solutions for our Spotify Android client
- Help your team solve problems in a way that makes sense for Android users and our codebase
- Join dozens of other developers and help to shape the direction of Android development at Spotify
- Flexibility to work from home/remotely!
Who you are
- You have a deep understanding of modern Android development.
- You know how to write readable, maintainable, performant object-oriented Java and Kotlin.
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code.
- You have released at least one app or have a project in the works that you can tell us about.
- Open source experience is a huge plus!
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 EMEA 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 Central European time zone for collaboration
- We ask that our team members be located within Greenwich Mean time zone, Central European time zone, or Eastern European standard time zone for the purposes of our collaboration hours
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm +/- 2 hours
What you'll do
- Evolve, scale and platformise marketplace commerce capabilities for Spotify
- Develop commerce features that enable the creator economy, by supporting products across the Spotify ecosystem
- Help lead the engineering crafts across the squad, Product area and Tribe
- Work with squads across the Product area and Tribe to develop the commerce platform
Who you are
- You have strong fundamentals in computer science and previous experience building backend products at scale
- You have a strong proficiency in backend technologies such as Java and Python
- You have an intermediate to advanced understanding of distributed, high-volume services, JVM concepts, and architecture patterns
- You have experience designing, implementing and scaling cloud-native software components on providers like AWS or GCP is highly desirable.
- You are comfortable working collaboratively on a cross-functional team, working project-based and also driving delivery on small to medium-sized initiatives
- Growth mentality, are curious and not afraid to be experimental. You share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you
- Passionate about engineering practices like agile, continuous delivery, test-driven development, defensive programming and circuit-breakers
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 EMEA 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 Central European time zone for collaboration
- We ask that our team members be located within Greenwich Mean time zone, Central European time zone, or Eastern European standard time zone for the purposes of our collaboration hours
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+00:00) London +/- 2 hours
"Think it, build it, ship it, tweak it" is at the core of Spotify's development approach, and in Experimentation we are providing Spotify teams the platform and the best practices to do exactly this: quickly and safely iterate through ideas, learn from them and make informed decisions for better products. We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with a backend/infrastructure development background to join the Experimentation Platform team. Join a multidisciplinary team of data-, web-, backend engineers and data scientists that share a passion for bringing the scientific experimentation methodology to the daily toolbox of every Spotify team. Some day to day tasks include building and running data pipelines for datasets produced and consumed by the Experimentation Platform, digging into and working with data in large databases such as Big Query, and ultimately building tooling helping hundred of employees make data-informed decisions affecting millions of people.
What you'll do
- Build batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scio, Storm, Spark on Google Cloud Platform.
- Help drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality.
- Take part in discussions and share around metrics, SQL, data science and engineering in general.
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with inspiring work, encouraging you to acquire new skills.
- Develop yourself and our community through participating in Hackdays, thematic guilds, and through a variety of internal training courses.
Who you are
- You have extensive experience in data engineering and you know how to work with high volume heterogeneous data.
- Proficient in big data SQL based databases, for instance Big Query.
- Knowledgeable regarding data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques
- Skilled in your craft, coding in Java and Scala.
- Experienced in crafting and building maintainable backend services in Java
- You are a brave learner; You see unfamiliar territories as an opportunity to grow.
- You value team collaboration and seek to grow the skills and knowledge of your peers.
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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
- 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.
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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm
What you'll do
- Support the engineering team in formulating the technical vision and strategy for our ML-based optimization across the freemium funnel.
- Seek sophisticated data-related problems involving some of the most diverse datasets available and resolve feasibility of projects through quick prototyping with respect to performance, quality, time and cost using Agile methodologies
- Architect outstanding infrastructure (platforms, tools, and approaches) to accelerate our research and prototypes to the product phase and set up efficient training, deployment, optimization, and testing of models.
- Apply machine learning to build product features that drive tangible business impact
- Be a leading voice in an active community of ML practitioners across Spotify and improve existing state-of-the-art tooling in the Spotify ecosystem (TensorFlow, DataFlow, python-beam, Google Cloud Platform)
- Contribute to our team-wide product conceptualization in collaboration with engineers, researchers, product managers and tech leads on the team.
- Help drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality
Who you are:
- PhD or M.Sc. in Machine Learning, or related field
- You have 4+ years of machine learning product development experience demonstrating large scale data processing technologies (e.g. TensorFlow, SciKit learn, Dataflow, Hadoop, Scalding, Spark, Storm)
- You have experience in using ML techniques to optimize customer facing product features
- You have a strong mathematical background in statistics and machine learning
- You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
- You preferably have machine learning publications or work on open source to share with us
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 informabout about our Work From Anywhere options here.
- Working hours? We operate within the EST/EDT time zone for collaboration
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time +/- 2 hours
We are looking for a thoughtful, well-rounded Senior Android engineer to join our team and help build an application that people use every day to discover and listen to music. You will play an important part in our mobile engineering practice, implementing new features, improving performance, and building beautiful user interfaces. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music.
We are currently hiring a Senior Android Engineer to join a cross functional team in our Freemium Mission. We are a team of 7 Backend, iOS, and Android developers who work on our main music app. We support features for Free and Premium users to understand Premium Plans Offerings and their benefits so they can make the right decisions for what version of Spotify works for their life. Our teams work across multiple platforms and are beginning with Machine Learning to bring the most relevant content to our users.What you’ll do
- Collaborate with a small, autonomous team of developers, designers, and product owners to find end-to-end solutions to important problems.
- Implement these solutions for our Spotify Android client.
- Help your team solve problems in a way that makes sense for Android users and our codebase.
- Join dozens of other developers and help to shape the direction of Android development at Spotify.
- Flexibility to work from home/remotely!
Who you are
- You have a deep understanding of modern Android development.
- You know how to write readable, maintainable, performant object-oriented Java and Kotlin.
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code.
- You have released at least one app or have a project in the works that you can tell us about.
- You care about mentoring other developers and supporting a psychologically safe team culture.
- You care about team success over individual success.
- Backend Java experience is a plus!
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.
- We ask that our team members be located within Central Standard time zone, Eastern Standard time zone, or Brasília time zone for the purposes of our collaboration hours.
- 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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
We are looking for a collaborative Staff Engineer to join our Backstage development squads, part of our Platform Developer Experience Organization (PDX). PDX creates the technology ecosystem that enables Spotify engineering to deliver quickly, while safely and easily scaling to a billion customers. Our area consists of nine squads that reflect the needs and groupings of our internal and open source end user customers. We are an amplifier for productivity, quality, and innovation across Spotify. The Backstage squads are functions within the PDX aiming to a) deliver an open and thriving ecosystem trusted by millions of engineers, one where hundreds of companies collaborate to build the best developer experience in the world and b) lead Spotify into a new era of infrastructure based on an open foundation, bringing an industry leading developer experience. By joining us, you will help play an instrumental role in improving the experience of over 2000+ developers at Spotify as well as a growing open source community. Directly helping Spotify on our journey towards becoming one of the top tech companies in the world.
What You'll Do
- Be a technical leader within Spotify
- Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate services and systems that serve millions of users
- Be a part of a cross functional team, working closely with internal customers and our open-source community
- Promote sound engineering practices, drive work on technical strategy and roadmaps
- Advocate for unification of infrastructure, tools and languages where clients are similar in structure to lower the cost of ownership and increase the speed of the adopting teams
- You’ll collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems, creating an awesome engineering experience for our open-source community and internal Spotify engineering teams
- Influence and drive technical projects. Working with teams and partners across the organisation at all levels
- Support in identifying and implementing measurements of success for the team
Who You Are
- You are experienced in building and implementing large-scale systems across various project
- You have extensive experience as a leader, working hands-on in an agile environment
- You have several years of experience working with infrastructure
- You enjoy working with React, TypeScript and Java and have a knowledge of working with GraphQL and build systems
- As a contributor, you have engaged with large scale open-source projects
- Mentoring and supporting peers and engineering teams, fostering best engineering practices, is important to you
- You possess a deep understanding of how to translate product and business goals into tech
- You have impact through your communication skills and love sharing your knowledge with others, helping them grow
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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
- 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
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 365 million users.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm
Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them.
We are looking for a collaborative, proactive and well-rounded developer that will join the Remix team, working on Spotify's desktop client. You will help us work on the C++ and platform specific parts of the desktop client, with forays into the TypeScript UI layer to provide a compelling user experience. We are a small team, so you'll have a chance to make a big impact in the team. And above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music.
What you'll do
- Work on the C++ code base for the desktop client, including the interface to the Chromium Embedded Framework and our TypeScript UI layer, platform specific code for macOS/Windows, and Spotify's cross-platform Core library, which handles things like audio streaming/playback and communication with the backend
- Work on the TypeScript UI layer of the desktop client and other web surfaces
- Work on supporting backend services written in Java
- Build and maintain experiences that are enjoyed around the world
Who you are
- You deeply value cooperation and collaboration with others while solving complex problems and you really want to make a difference.
- You design, develop and maintain C++ code in symbiosis with a handful of other languages (Ex: Objective-C, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, Swift)
- You are able to write clear, modular, maintainable code that will perform on many platforms and devices.
- You have a growth mindset and are passionate about continuously growing your skill set and experience across different software languages and domains.
- You may already have some experience with React, test automation or backend services.
- You care about end-user experience, high quality code, agile values, modern engineering practices, and sharing what you know to help others grow.
- You have been working for a couple of years with software development and probably have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent such as Physics or Electrical Engineering
- You have strong written and spoken communication skills in English
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 320 million users.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them.
Spotify’s engineers are creative problem solvers focusing on building a fantastic music listening experience for millions around the world. They work together in autonomous teams that are responsible for their missions and independently identify, prioritize and solve the problems they face. If you are great at teamwork and also know how to design simple, efficient and testable software, then you’re the one we are looking for!
What you’ll do
- We are looking for a collaborative and proactive C++ Engineer that will join the Players squad, a part of the Playback tribe in Stockholm. The Players squad is responsible for providing APIs, core components (C++) and backend services (Java, C++) to enable track sequencing and playback behaviours for all Spotify clients and smart speakers. What we work on includes:
- Building and iterating on behaviors like shuffle, sorting and filtering, applying label licensing restrictions, inserting ads, transitioning between tracks, and managing the play queue.
- Enabling seamless resumption and transfer of listening sessions between different devices and at different points in time
- Interfacing with a large range of feature squads working on all the different client platforms, infrastructure and operations teams, as well as working closely with squads responsible for 3rd party integrations and Spotify Connect.
- Building and maintaining services that keep music playing around the world
Who you are
- You deeply value cooperation and collaboration with others while solving complex problems and you really want to make a difference.
- You design, develop and maintain C++ code in symbiosis with a handful of other languages (Ex: JavaScript, Java, Objective-C, Swift, Java for Android)
- You are able to write clear, modular, maintainable code that will perform on many platforms and devices.
- You have a growth mindset and are passionate about continuously growing your skillset and experience across different software languages and domains. You may already have some experience with iOS, Android, JavaScript, Java or backend services.
- You care about end-user experience, high quality code, agile values, modern engineering practices, and sharing what you know to help others grow.
- You have been working for a couple of years with software development and probably have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent such as Physics or Electrical Engineering
- You have strong written and spoken communication skills in English
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 320 million users.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
We are seeking Senior Full Stack Engineers to join a high-paced team of 8 to 16 engineers, marketers, business developers, and product managers (like a small startup) to test an entirely new technology-focused business line and distribution channel. We’re looking for ways to turbocharge the adoption of an already successful open source project. Are you passionate about empowering developers to move quickly and scaling open source projects? Join us!
Responsibilities will vary frequently. We wear several hats and it's likely this role will span working with developers within Spotify, in the open-source community, and across thousands of companies. We want someone who’s passionate about this type of environment.
What you'll do
- Be part of a cross-functional team of different domain professionals working closely with our open-source community
- Contribute to the cultivation and growth of the Backstage developer community
- Identify points of friction in the adoption and integration experience of Backstage
- Help make the developer experience seamless for all developers across thousands of companies
- Promote sound engineering practices, iterate on technical strategy and architecture
- Collaborate with other specialists, product managers, and designers to identify and seek challenges, crafting an awesome engineering experience for the open-source community and internal Spotify engineering teams
- Initiate, influence and drive technical projects and community programs
- Support in identifying and implementing measurements of success for the team
Who you are
- You have extensive experience with modern web development and are interested in working across the stack
- You are comfortable around infrastructure
- React, TypeScript/JavaScript and Node are a part of your tool-belt, knowledge working with GraphQL is a bonus
- You have experience developing resources to support a developer platform (i.e. documentation, tutorials, sample apps, API client libraries)
- You have worked on or contributed to large scale open-source projects
- You are a great influencer with superb communication skills, you love sharing your knowledge with others and helping them grow
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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time
What you'll do
- Be part of a cross-functional team, helping them implement new insights with greater confidence.
- Partner with developers and other SDETs to improve and automate test and release processes.
- Build and maintain tooling for test development, coverage and reporting.
- Directly contribute to feature development and maintenance with the team.
- Provide the team with a Quality Strategy that supports the team's delivery goals and aligns to the overall Spotify quality strategy.
- Enable and encourage developers to craft and implement tests in an efficient way by providing them with the right tools, frameworks, and infrastructure.
- Be part of a highly skilled Quality chapter, owning initiatives for improvement and standardization of quality processes, metrics and tooling across the Freemium Mission.
Who you are
- You are an awesome SDET working with scalable distributed systems that is more than comfortable writing Python (or Java) and working with Postgres.
- You have a passion for test infrastructure and you know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery and have experience with cloud platforms like GCP / AWS.
- You are passionate about what you do and have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
- You have implemented and/or maintained test automation suites and have knowledge of a few test automation and debugging tools.
- You feel comfortable digging into the architecture of systems looking for potential problems.
- You have the ability to work with other developers to ensure that systems are crafted for reliability, performance and testability.
- You are a problem solver who is not constrained by programming languages. You are open to learning new technologies to improve the impact you make.
- Experience in working within the e-commerce, subscription or payments domain is a plus.
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 EMEA 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 Central European time zone for collaboration
- We ask that our team members be located within Greenwich Mean time zone, Central European time zone, or Eastern European standard time zone for the purposes of our collaboration hours
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
What you’ll do
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
- Design, develop and maintain backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability.
- Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call rotation
- Work closely with operations and compliance teams to make sure that you collaboratively provide for the company’s short- and long-term goals, differentiating between building what is asked for and what is truly needed in the payments domain.
- Maintain and update our PCI environment
- Hack on what you want during regular system hack days and bi-annual hack weeks.
Who you are
- You are an awesome engineer working with scalable distributed systems that is more than comfortable writing Python (or Java) and working with Postgres.
- You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery and automated testing and have experience in working on cloud platforms like GCP / AWS.
- You are passionate about what you do and have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
- Experience in working within the e-commerce, subscription or payments domain is a plus.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm +/- 2 hours
The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Daily Mix to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them.
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our mixed media listening experiences team. Here you will build distributed backend systems that advance the state of the art for blending music and other audio experiences (e.g., podcasts, news, history, sports, wellness, trivia, etc) that are personalized and adapt to changing listening habits. You will assume technical leadership of projects and champion technical and architectural excellence. You will also mentor other engineers to support them in their career growth.
What You'll Do:
- Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate Java services that serve millions of users.
- Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company
- Be a technical leader within the team you work with and within Spotify in general.
- Coordinate technical projects across teams within Spotify.
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems for delivering various media worldwide.
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
- Hack on what you want during regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks.
Who You Are:
- You are an experienced technical leader
- You have 5+ years of experience in designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java
- 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 can quickly scope the size and feasibility of projects of all sizes.
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 and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located that time zone.
- 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.
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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
What You'll Do:
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives, focused mainly on greenfield development.
- Work and collaborate in a fast-paced environment, with a team of talented engineers, UI/UX designers and product owners to build state of the art web based tools and applications for internal and external audiences.
- Work with modern web technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Next.js, React, gRPC, and GraphQL.
- Be a strong participant in the Spotify-wide web developer community affecting and driving web engineering across the company.
- Be a technical leader within the team you work with and within Spotify in general. Champion technical and architectural excellence. Promote high standards in terms of consistency to best practices.
- Coach and mentor other engineers; share knowledge, explain, perform peer code reviews.
- Hack on what you want during regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks.
Who You Are:
- You are an experienced web developer with 5+ years of professional experience.
- You have experienced working throughout the full web stack.
- You are proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.
- You have strong data and API modeling skills.
- Have a firm understanding of Javascript design patterns, data structures, web architecture, and understand how to apply craft to design pragmatic solutions.
- You have experience being a technical leader and mentor, and take pride in keeping up with current standard methodologies in your areas of expertise.
- You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming, reliability, and automated testing.
- You thrive with agile development practices, prioritizing valuable work, pulling tickets across the board, maintaining documentation, and assuring tech debt is recorded.
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 time zone for collaboration
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time +/- 2 hours
Who you are
- BS/MS in CS or other relevant fields of study
- 3+ experience with designing and building highly scalable data solutions
- You don’t like leaving questions unanswered and you love exploring/understanding data
- You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and testability.
- You are passionate about crafting clean code and have a steady foundation in coding and building data pipelines
- You love visualising your data findings in a clear and easy to understand way and to capture corner cases of implementations
- You are interested in being the glue between engineering and finance
What you'll do
- Explore new ways of producing, processing, and analysing data in order to gain insights into key metrics such as revenue and cash
- Design, develop, and test data-driven products and features that can handle millions of financial events per day
- Work with state-of-the-art data processing frameworks, technologies, and platforms
- Improve data quality through testing, tooling and continuously evaluating the performance
- Work with other software engineers, business stakeholders and decision-makers, such as product managers, to build solutions and gain novel insights
- Act as the bridge between our technology and finance departments and reinvent outdated, monolithic financial processes
- Work in multi-functional agile teams with end-to-end responsibility for product development and delivery
- Work from our awesome Stockholm HQ's
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 EMEA 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 CET time zone for collaboration
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm +/- 2 hours
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
- You have 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.
- You have written distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production.
- You have 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.
- 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 are willing to work from our awesome office in New York. We offer relocation packages if you do not currently live in the area.
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
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time +/- 2 hours
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with a small, autonomous team of developers, designers, and product owners to find end-to-end solutions to important problems
- Implement these solutions for our Android client, adhering to Android development best practices
- Help your team solve problems in a way that makes sense for Android users and our codebase
- Join dozens of other developers and help to shape the direction of Android development at Spotify
Who You Are
- You have a deep understanding of modern Android development
- You know how to write readable, maintainable, performant object-oriented Java
- You are experienced with Android development tools
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code
- You have a high level understanding of end to end systems
- You have released at least one app or have a project in the works that you can tell us about
- You have at least 3-4 years of professional experience
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
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time +/- 2 hours
What you'll do
- Be a technical leader within the team you work with and within Spotify in general.
- Coordinate technical projects across teams within Spotify.
- Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scio, Storm, Spark, and the Google Cloud Platform.
- Architect, design, develop, deploy, and operate Java services that serve millions of users in a DevOps manner.
- Facilitate collaboration with Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers to tackle exciting and challenging problems for delivering various media worldwide.
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
- Mentor and develop team members. Help craft and promote sound engineering practices, like continuous delivery and automated testing within the team
Who you are
- Have 5+ years of professional experience working in a product-driven environment.
- Know how to write distributed data pipelines in Java/Scala and high-volume services in Java.
- Experience with one or more higher-level data processing frameworks such as Apache Beam or Apache Spark
- 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.
- Worked in a team with both Data Engineers and Data Scientists
- Proficient in SQL based databases, ideally with familiarity of cloud-based data warehousing solutions such as BigQuery
- Knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques.
- Care about making your team the best version of itself through mentorship and constructive accountability.
Where you'll be
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode 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 about our Work From Anywhere options here.
- Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
What you'll do:
- Work closely with a cross-functional team of product managers, software engineers, data scientists, business operations and marketing professionals to build best in class audience and identity products.
- You will partner with marketing and analytics teams to implement uniform and consistent taxonomy and data collection practices that yield improved analytics and insights
- You will build custom audience segments and manage the delivery of those segments to ad network destinations for paid media targeting and suppression purposes
- You’ll anticipate technology needs before they arise, working with the marketing, analytics, and insights teams to find solutions that meet fluctuating and rapidly evolving goals and objectives
- You will partner with your Marketing, Tech, Insights and Analytics colleagues to prioritize and execute work and foster a culture of impact and performance
Who you are:
- You have 5+years of experience providing technical and engineering capability in marketing technology, product analytics and marketing analytics for marketing and growth teams
- You have experience with mobile deep linking, tag management, and marketing attribution data and ad fraud prevention
- You bring experience in Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), Data Management Platforms (DMPs) and identity graph solutions
- You are highly skilled in database analysis, SQL and data warehouse solutions such as Google BigQuery
- Prior to starting your technical leadership career you have had extensive experience working hands-on as a Software Engineer in an agile environment
- You have a comfort and familiarity with modern development practices and the development lifecycle with experience using Scrum, Kanban, Lean or other agile methodologies
- You have excellent leadership and relationship building skills
- You are good at sorting out ambiguity
- You have high standards for yourself and others
- You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and seek something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away
- You are seen as a subject-matter technical expert and enjoy consulting with others in the business on achieving their goals
- You are self-motivated and proactive with the ability to work independently
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
- We ask that our team members be located within Central Standard time zone, Eastern Standard time zone, or Brasília time zone for the purposes of our collaboration hours
- Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about about our Work From Anywhere options here.
- Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time +/- 2 hours
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify.
Drive the evolution of our unified Design Systems, Encore. As a Design Systems Engineer, you will contribute your technical know-how and design aesthetic to push Spotify's current design standards to an even higher level. You’re the kind of person who is passionate about iOS development, design, collaboration and inclusion. You’ll live in the space between design and tech, pushing the boundaries of user interface design and design systems. An eye for detail is essential as you develop UI and animation libraries, design tools and foundational frameworks. The impact of your work at Spotify will be significant as you ship a system which powers products that are a part of the lives of millions of users every single day.
What you’ll do
- Work day-to-day in a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, writers and product managers to build and maintain our central foundational design system tooling which works across all our platforms and products.
- Collaborate with other design systems teams on evolving our shared processes and tooling to support a large number of teams working on a diverse array of products
- Explore new ways of solving cross-platform design problems at scale
- Develop innovative approaches to the application of our foundational design system on iOS. Finding new approaches, improving the developer experience and removing any friction around applying Spotify’s signature design
- Drive the adoption of our Design System across the company, within all of our apps and integrations though a model of cross-functional collaboration
Who you are
- You are committed to learn the latest approaches to the creation, evolution and distribution of design systems
- You are a good communicator and an empathetic, attentive listener with the capability to anticipate the needs of partners
- You should have experience working with Objective-C or Swift and are willing to learn and work with both. If you have experience in other languages and technologies like Android or Web development, that would be a bonus
- You are knowledgeable about Apple HIG and/or Material Design, an aptitude for animation, and an inclination towards interface design
- You have experience building complex libraries that were used by multiple teams
- You care deeply about usability, accessibility and performance
- You are eager to learn new technologies (we will support you with training & mentoring)
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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day.
Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them. We are looking for a well-rounded full-stack iOS engineer to work on the Spotify main iOS application and adhere to the mobile engineering practices of Spotify's mobile app development. As an iOS developer you will be responsible for implementing user-facing features, but also work on APIs and interaction with our backend services. We are looking for an engineer interested in more than iOS development and feel comfortable jumping on backend services development when needed.
Our team is a large cross-functional team working with hardware products at Spotify. The team has all the engineering roles from C/C++ developers, to mobile and web developers, to backend developers. Our focus is on learning more about music experience and how to enhance that experience on hardware products.
Who you are
- You have several years of experience working with Objective-C, Swift and Java
- You care about code quality, reusability and testability
- You are comfortable jumping between iOS and backend development
- You ideally have an understanding of iOS internals like bluetooth and audio stack
- You have basic knowledge of Python and are willing to learn more if needed
- You are comfortable working in a large codebase
- You have strong written and spoken communication skills in English
- You value agile and modern engineering practices
What you'll do
- You will collaborate closely with a small team of mobile (Android and iOS) and backend developers as part of the larger team
- You will work closely together with product and design to deliver features
- You will work on user facing, but also non-user facing features in the Spotify Mobile app and integrate them with our backend services (written in Java)
- You will write clear, testable and maintainable code that will scale across a number of projects and distributed development teams
- Accurately estimate difficulty and time of work for projects
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Spotify is looking for an experienced iOS engineer to join an innovation project within an unexplored product domain. You will be part of a brand new, small, agile, and constantly evolving team, working to identify and execute upon growth opportunities that meet our ambitious commercial and user experience goals. Innovation projects inside Spotify run like mini-startups within the company, so responsibilities will vary frequently. We want someone who’s excited about this type of environment. With a team split between New York & London, the working location for this position can be based in the US or Europe.
What you'll do:
- Build groundbreaking iOS app prototype and feature solutions that bring brand new experiences to Spotify users
- Implement these solutions for our iOS client, adhering to iOS development best practices
- Write clear, maintainable code that will eventually scale across a number of projects and distributed development teams
- Collaborate closely with other engineers on a small nimble team.
- Become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team.
Who you are:
- You know how to write readable, idiomatic, and maintainable Swift and are willing to follow already defined coding guidelines and workflows. We also expect you to know how to write objective-c in a similar way.
- You are experienced with a variety of iOS frameworks.
- You have a deep understanding of Cocoa design patterns and API design.
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code.
- You have released at least one app on the App Store or have a project in the works that you can tell us about.
- You are comfortable working in an agile environment and are comfortable challenging yourself and your team to improve their ways of working.
- You care about the user experience and know how to build user-friendly applications
- You care about mobile technologies, exploring data, user experience and design (and music and podcasts!)
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and can communicate your ideas
- Values team success over personal success.
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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify.
Drive the evolution of our unified Design Systems, Encore. As a Design Systems Engineer, you will contribute your technical know-how and design aesthetic to push Spotify's current design standards to an even higher level. You’re the kind of person who is passionate about Android development, design, collaboration and inclusion. You’ll live in the space between design and tech, pushing the boundaries of user interface design and design systems. An eye for detail is essential as you develop UI and animation libraries, design tools and foundational frameworks. The impact of your work at Spotify will be significant as you ship a system which powers products that are a part of the lives of millions of users every single day.
What you’ll do
- Work day-to-day in a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, writers and product managers to build and maintain our central foundational design system tooling which works across all our platforms and products.
- Collaborate with other design systems teams on evolving our shared processes and tooling to support a large number of teams working on a diverse array of products
- Explore new ways of solving cross-platform design problems at scale
- Develop innovative approaches to the application of our foundational design system on Android. Finding new approaches, improving the developer experience and removing any friction around applying Spotify’s signature design
- Drive the adoption of our Design System across the company, within all of our apps and integrations though a model of cross-functional collaboration
Who you are
- You are commited to learn the latest approaches to the creation, evolution and distribution of design systems
- You are a good communicator and an empathetic, attentive listener with the capability to anticipate the needs of partners
- You should have experience working with Java or Kotlin and are willing to learn and work with both. If you have experience in other languages and technologies like iOS or Web development, that would be a bonus
- You are knowledgeable about Material Design and/or Apple HIG, an aptitude for animation, and an inclination towards interface design
- You have experience building complex libraries that were used by multiple teams
- You care deeply about usability, accessibility and performance
- You are eager to learn new technologies (we will support you with training & mentoring)
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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT+01:00) Stockholm
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify. We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join Spotify's Data Foundations team. In Data Foundations, the solutions we build impact hundreds of Spotify engineers and data scientists, and thousands of daily data processing jobs: ultimately the user experience of hundreds of MILLIONS of users via more data-informed recommendations and user-experience! As a Senior Data Scientist you will help drive a data-first culture across Spotify, working with a hardworking group of engineers and product managers to develop a detailed understanding of our data ecosystem and develop new strategies for measuring and visualising how data works at Spotify.
What You' ll do
- Work closely with a cross-functional, geographically distributed team of data scientists, user researchers, product managers, designers and engineers across New York, Stockholm and London.
- Define metrics and build and analyze dashboards, reports and key datasets to drive data-informed product development.
- Apply thorough analysis to understand and detail sophisticated workflows, data flows and processes.
- Communicate insights and recommendations to key partners, helping to activate data standard methodologies in Data Foundations, and more broadly in the data, insights and engineering communities across all of Spotify.
- Develop and innovate on our mixed-methods insights practice, and contribute to the wider Insights community at Spotify.
- Work from our offices in New York (With the current situation regarding COVID-19, this role will be remote until it's appropriate to work from the office).
Who you are
- You have significant professional experience, and a degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, economics or another quantitative subject area.
- You are a communicative person who values building strong relationships with colleagues and partners and enjoys mentoring and guiding others.
- You know how to seek loosely defined problems and come up with meaningful answers and impactful insights.
- You have an understanding of how to instrument products to accurately collect user and system behaviors through data for a wide variety of insight and product development use cases.
- You have hands-on experience synthesizing insights from data using tools such as Python, R, BigQuery, SQL, Tableau.
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.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time
Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them.
We are working together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their own part of the Spotify ecosystem, including writing code with high standards, hosting our services in Google Cloud Platform, monitoring our services, measuring quality and guaranteeing service reliability.
Some teams work with a feature like search, others focus on supporting monitoring or making it super easy to deploy features on a certain type of client. You will join a team where everyone shares a common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability and continued development. Together we try to find new ways to create a great Spotify experience for all our users at all times. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music.
Please note: this posting represents multiple roles across various teams, including a range of responsibilities and experience levels.
What you’ll do
- Design, develop and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
- Build and operate infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines
- Collaborate closely with other engineers and become a valued member of an autonomous, cross- functional team
- Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, potentially including taking part in an on-call rotation
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
- Continuously improve our product by innovating on the service through the usage of A/B tests.
Who you are
- You architect, design, develop and maintain Java code in symbiosis with a handful of other languages
- You are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
- You are comfortable working with modern infrastructure and tools
- You are comfortable running your software in Linux environments
- You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming and automated testing
- You’re familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems and enjoy seeing millions of users running your code
- You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions
You will work from our awesome office in Stockholm - we offer relocation packages if you do not currently live in Sweden. 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 320 million users.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor
Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them.
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join a brand new team, innovating in a new product space focusing on podcasts. You’ll help trailblaze new ways of creating and sharing audio content in a world of infinite sources, channels, and platforms. You will work with members of your team to build features, tools, and a scalable architecture which will target an entirely new customer segment for Spotify.
The technologies you are familiar with are less important to us than your ability to demonstrate practical experience of development, such as agile engineering methods backed by a deep understanding of software engineering best practices.
As with many new products, responsibilities will vary frequently. You’ll wear multiple hats, and work across many different technologies, inside many different product domains, and alongside several different teams. We want someone who’s excited about this type of environment!
What you’ll do
- Be an impactful contributor to the team to plan, design and build elegant solutions
- You will collaborate closely with other engineers and become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team
- Build and maintain high-scale, secure services for our users and partners
- Monitor, test and continuously optimize your designs
- Deliver testable, maintainable and high-quality code
- Collaborate with other software engineers, product managers, designers, analysts and leaders around the company
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
- Ensure that our customer’s experience is the very best it can be
- Have the opportunity to participate in annual company-wide hack week
Who you are
- You are intensely curious and excited about the prospect of diving deep in multiple areas
- You embrace uncertainty and use it as an opportunity to innovate
- You are experienced with modern backend service coding, testing, debugging and automation techniques, using languages such as Java
- You are comfortable working in an agile environment, and are comfortable challenging yourself and your team to improve their ways of working
- You care about the user experience and know how to build developer-friendly APIs
- You have experience with continuous delivery and automated testing
- You have a deep understanding of object oriented and functional programming paradigms
- You care about internet technologies, exploring data, user experience and design (and music and podcasts!)
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and can communicate your ideas
- You value team success over personal success
- A degree in Computer Science or a similar area and music or podcast experience are bonuses
You will be working from our awesome headquarter offices in central Stockholm. We offer relocation packages if you do not currently live in Sweden. 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 320 million users.
Job Benefits:
- Incentive Mix Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Public Holidays
- Spotify Premium Subscription
- Trips & Festivals Around the Globe
- Access to extensive learning opportunities for personal development
- Travel insurance and additional support for all business trips
- Free, confidential counseling sessions with a qualified counselor