Staff Engineer – Backend i Stockholm

As a Staff Engineer, you will architect, design, develop, deploy and operate features that are used by millions of users. You‘ll be the technical leader for a department, contributing hands-on in a team, while leading technical projects spanning multiple teams. We are looking for someone who can drive development and delivery, build sound architecture and foster best practices when it comes to web development, as well as mentor other engineers to grow. Responsibilities  & expectations of a Staff 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.
• Possess 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

You will be working from our awesome headquarter offices in central Stockholm. We offer relocation packages if you do not currently live in Sweden.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background 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 and we encourage everyone to come be a part of changing the way the world listens to music.