about 2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines for Spotify Rights Center.
- Collaborate with product, insights, design, and engineering teams to meet the needs of rightsholders.
- Deliver scalable, testable, and maintainable backend systems with strong operational ownership.
- Evolve platform architecture to accommodate more licensors and content types.
- Support timely delivery of technical solutions aligned with business needs.
- Contribute to modern engineering practices and healthy engineering standards.
- Integrate with Spotify’s broader content and moderation ecosystem.
- Foster a collaborative team culture and contribute to product ideation.
- Grow skills through hands-on work and learning opportunities.
Requirements
- Strong experience in designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java or similar languages.
- Comfortable with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases and data modeling.
- Ability to support production systems and apply learnings from incidents.
- Ownership of solutions from scoping to deployment and monitoring.
- Ensure quality through modern testing, debugging, and automation techniques.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms.
- Proactively identify tech debt and prioritize it with the team.
- Care about software architecture and APIs that connect systems.
- Excited to learn new problem spaces and prioritize team success.
- Experience with Bazel, GCP services, and data pipeline tools is a plus.
- Familiarity with rights management or content moderation is a plus.
Benefits
- Flexible work location within the EMEA region, excluding France.
- Collaboration within Central European and GMT time zones.