Lead Backend Engineer i Stockholm

Responsibilities  & expectations of a Lead Engineer

• Be a technical leader within a squad and tribe
• Support members of a squad in delivering backend services with high availability, low latency and scalability
• Coordinate technical projects spanning multiple squads.
• Facilitate collaboration between engineers, product owners, and designers.
• Posses a deep understanding of the product and business goals which you can translate into tech.
• Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate services that serve millions of users.
• Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company.
• Mentor other engineers.
• Drive good engineering practises within your team(s) and define and teach these
  practices within our developer community.
• Challenge yourself to keep growing as a senior developer  
• Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your domain of expertise.
• Find ways to spread learning across the organization (gives internal talks, write on internal blogs, etc).
• Be a department-level expert in a particular area or tribe-level go-to person for solving problems in your domain of expertise.

What we are looking for: 

• Have proven experience as a technical leader for a team/department.
• Have extensive experience working hands-on as a Software Engineer in an agile environment.
• Have experience in mentoring and supporting peers and engineering teams.  
• Knowledge in how to write distributed, high-volume services.
• Experienced with deploying and operating services on Linux.
• Have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions.
• Care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code.
• You have experience in identifying, debugging and resolving complex production issues