
Senior Backend Engineer - AdCo
Spotify
- Location
- United States of America
- Posted
- Salary Range
- 160k - 229k USD
Develop scalable backend systems and data pipelines for Spotify's advertising platform using Java and cloud services.
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Spotify
The Advertising Product & Technology team at Spotify aims to build a next-generation advertising platform that aligns with the company's unique value proposition for audio and video. The team collaborates with internal partners to design backend systems, develops Java services deployed to millions of users, and builds data pipelines using frameworks like Scio and Flink. As a technical leader, you will work with stakeholders to understand requirements, develop APIs, and drive adoption. You will also mentor junior engineers and contribute to the development of high-quality code. With flexible remote work options and competitive benefits, this role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI and audio streaming.
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.
Advertising R&D brings value to Spotify through our ad platform, allowing us to monetize the free tier and podcast content with ads. The AdCo Studio works on building a best-in-class self-service advertising platform, as well as delivering and commercializing the Ads API, business management functionally, tools to enable operational scale, and much more.
What You'll Do
Collaborate with key internal partners to determine how to design backend systems and APIs scalably.
Architect, develop and operate Java services deployed to millions of users.
Work with data engineers to build and maintain batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scio and Flink.
Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, multi-functional agile team.
Identify and remedy hard-to-understand problems.
Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve problems.
Mentor junior engineers and be a proactive team member
What You Are
You have 5+ years of working experience with Java and/or Scala.
You have experience working with cloud services (GCP, AWS, Azure) and containerization tools (Kubernetes, Docker)
You have written distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production.
You have experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document, and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations.
You love working in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly.
You believe data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making.
You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
You care about quality and know what it means to ship high-quality code.
You can work with some level of ambiguity and are an effective communicator across stakeholders
Where You'll Be
We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North American region as long as we have a work location.
This team operates within the EST time zone for collaboration.
The United States base range for this position is $160,091- $228,702 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
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.