The Royalties and Reporting Product Area at Spotify is based within the broader Financial Engineering Mission. We are responsible for transforming billions of daily streams into accurate royalty payments that enable artists to live off their art. Royalties are at the heart of Spotify’s mission, which means that our team contributes to highly visible initiatives across the company. It also means that we have a duty to understand a large number of business domains and systems to know how we can best support Spotify.
We are looking for engineers who bring innovative ideas from diverse areas, including distributed computing, system architecture design, networking and data storage, CI/CD, and many others. We expect our engineers to be collaborative, display leadership qualities, and be passionate about tackling problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
As a critical component of the business, we hold ourselves to a high standard of engineering excellence. We build systems that will survive for years in a constantly evolving landscape. We move fast without breaking things.
Operating at Spotify scale, means that we are always on the bleeding edge of data intensive computing. Working with hundreds of labels and publishers around the world, each with their own unique set of constraints, means that we are constantly wrangling high levels of complexity and tackling problems previously unsolved in the industry.
Spotify works extensively with Google Cloud Platform technologies such as DataFlow, GKE, BigQuery, and Cloud Pub/Sub, and builds on top of them with open-source frameworks such as Scio. Our team solves problems with Scala, Python, Java, SQL, Jupyter Notebooks, whiteboards, and sticky notes. We are XP and we are Agile, in a uniquely Spotify way.
As Spotify grows, we are always experimenting with creative solutions that will enable our internal and external users, and the artists that we empower, to grow with us. We are revolutionizing the music industry – want to join the band?
You will be working from our Stockholm headquarters. We offer relocation packages if you do not currently live in Sweden.
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of background, experience, and perspectives will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users and our creators. This is something we value deeply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
What you will do
- Work in Financial Engineering – Royalty domain, where you’ll need to spend a reasonable amount of your time learning about business logic and requirements related to Royalties, Music Industry, Accounting processes, Music Licensing and agreements with our licensors. We will of course have a great team to support you on that
- Have the direct impact on execution of Spotify mission – paying royalties to make artists live off their work. You will create, tune and support systems that make it possible
- Drive designs of major software components, systems, and features with focus on high availability and scalability
- Build and operate infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines
- Understand and support a couple of large systems by covering their lifecycles with extensive testing and reproducible changelogs
- Customize integration and deployment steps of the systems to accommodate financial review if required
- Collaborate closely with other engineers, engineering and product managers in your team and across teams. Be a key player in building a strong team with high quality output and create a culture of innovation
- Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, 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 following latest technology trends and business requirements
Who you are
- Great team player. You enjoy working in a team, ask questions and accept the knowledge gap as you join
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or relevant working experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering and programming expertise (Java, Python, Scala etc) Java and Python we use on a day to day basis
- T-shape engineer. While being proficient in backend stack, you have passion for understanding how data and frontend work
- 3+ years of experience in architecture and design (patterns, reliability, scalability, quality) of complex systems
- Advanced coding skills and practices (concurrency, distributed systems, functional principles, performance optimization)
- Strong analytical and problem solving ability. Comfortable with tackling very loosely defined problems and thrive when working on a team which has autonomy in their day to day decisions
- Extensive experience working hands-on as a software engineer using an agile development methodology
- Experience in operating and maintaining production grade software
- Passionate and experienced in CI/CD
- GCP skills – deploying and operating services in there or in a similar cloud based backend
- Track record of building solutions based on microservice architecture as well as big data processing and modeling
- Previous experience in working with ITGC, GDPR and SOX-compliance (common in Fintech). It is a plus, but not a requirement
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.
