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Backend Engineer – User Platform i Stockholm

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The User Platform (UP) tribe is a tribe in Spotify’s Platform mission. The Platform mission is responsible for building the tooling and support platforms for the engineering teams at Spotify. UP owns the platforms for authentication, authorization, user account data and user experience configuration at Spotify. UP was formed with the mission to enhance its technologies and move up the stack to provide a secure platform with reusable components that can be used in many different surfaces to help users log-in and manage their account data. UP is also working with teams around Spotify to help them experiment and customize the user experience in new and more refined ways.  
We are looking for strong, engaged software engineers to join our teams who are passionate about providing a trustworthy and friction free login experience and account management for hundreds of millions of users. As an engineer in UP you will be responsible for many of the core services needed for Spotify to run (e.g. login, user data, etc. for 286M+ customers worldwide). You will build highly-available and high throughput solutions to enable the world access to music. At peak, we serve >600k requests per second to power tens of teams @ Spotify and handle serving >3TB of user account data to live services. You will also be able to innovate to create better, more seamless user experiences to help users access Spotify.
What you’ll do:
  • Work in a cross-functional team that helps deliver a great experience to all of our users around the world
  • Design, develop and deploy backend services with focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
  • Monitor, test, and continuously optimize your designs
  • Deliver testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
  • Share knowledge, evangelize best practices, and collaborate with some of the best engineers in the company
  • 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 by providing you with challenging work, the freedom to acquire new skills on hack days, reading groups, and a variety of internal training courses
  • You will be based in Stockholm, but occasionally travel globally
Who you are:
  • Have at least 5+ years of experience in working with scalable distributed systems.
  • Have working knowledge of Java.
  • You are are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
  • You are experienced 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 good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions
You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be brilliant. So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 286 million users.

Publicerad den

29-02-2024

Extra information

Status
Stängd
Ort
Stockholm
Typ av kontrakt
Heltidsjobb (förstajobb)
Typ av jobb
Civilingenjör / Arkitekt, IT
Körkort önskas
Nej
Tillgång till bil önskas
Nej
Personligt brev krävs
Nej

Stockholm | Civilingenjör / Arkitekt | IT | Heltidsjobb (förstajobb)