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Backend Engineer, Content Understanding

Spotify

Backend Engineer, Content Understanding

About the Role

As a Software Engineer in our Content Understanding teams, you will build the software and platform tools that enable Spotify to build great experiences for its users through real-time analysis of our large catalog of music, podcasts, and audiobooks.

What You'll Do

  • Build large-scale batch and real-time/event-driven systems with cloud infrastructure like Google Cloud Platform, BigTable, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub.
  • Design, develop, and deploy backend services in Java (and some Python) with a focus on high availability, robustness, and monitoring.
  • Leverage best practices in continuous integration and delivery.
  • Help drive optimization, testing, and tooling to improve data and systems quality.
  • Work in cross-functional agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate, and deliver on new product objectives.
  • Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team.
  • Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with ambitious tasks to solve and the time needed to acquire new skills.

Who You Are

  • You have at least three years of professional experience working in a product-driven environment building production software.
  • You know how to work with high volume heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as Hadoop, BigTable, and Cassandra.
  • You know how to write distributed, high-volume services in Java, Scala, or Python.
  • You have an understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
  • You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques.
  • You have worked deploying and operating services in a cloud environment such as GCP or AWS.
  • You enjoy close collaboration with front-end engineers and care about the software architecture across the backend, frontend, and the APIs that glue them together.
  • You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation.

Location

For this role, you will be based in New York City, USA.

Compensation

The United States base range for this position is $122,716 - $175,308, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, and 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits
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  • 401(k)
  • Medical insurance
  • Six month paid parental leave
  • Monthly meal allowance
  • 23 paid days off
  • 13 paid flexible holidays

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