Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.
At Spotify Advertising, our part of that mission is to build the next generation advertising platform which can scale the freemium experience for hundreds of millions of fans and tens of thousands of advertisers. We are looking for a Backend Engineer that will join the Spotify Advertising team. You will use your strong backend engineering and data skills to expand and enrich our advertising offerings. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music.
What You’ll Do
- Work day-to-day in a cross functional team to build and expand our Ads API and the underlying data systems
- Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and data scientists
- Deliver testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
- Share knowledge, promote best practices, and collaborate with some of the best engineers in the company
Who You Are
- You know how to build and maintain Java backend services
- You write clean, well tested, highly maintainable Java code with a clear separation of concerns
- You have a good understanding of database systems such as postgres, and can optimise database interactions for scale and performance
- You have had exposure to Data Engineering pipelines eg Scala, Apache Beam
- You are experienced with CI/CD pipelines
- You care about code quality, developing and demonstrating compelling solutions
- You are a good communicator and an empathetic, attentive listener with the capability to anticipate the needs of partners
- You are comfortable working in an agile environment, and are comfortable challenging yourself and your team to improve their ways of working
- You have delivered high impact backend projects that you can tell us about
Where You’ll Be
- You’ll be based in Australia, within a region in which we have a work location (Sydney or Melbourne)
- Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here
- Working hours? We operate within the Australian Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and often need to communicate with our other team members in US PST and ET
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. 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.
