About the Role
The Advertising Product & Technology team is building a next-generation advertising platform for audio and video, aiming to scale the user experience for millions of fans and advertisers. This role focuses on maintaining the Ads API and primary data store, emphasizing data availability, integrity, and performance at scale.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with team members to enhance the Ads API and data ecosystem, including ingestion, consumption, transformation, and storage.
- Partner with engineering squads across Spotify to provide data solutions, knowledge, and education.
- Work in an environment that supports individual growth.
- Improve operational excellence and share knowledge to promote best practices.
Requirements
- Experienced Java engineer with over 5 years of working experience on backend services at scale.
- Proven experience building and maintaining APIs at scale.
- Some experience with Data Engineering using Scala.
- Strong grasp of design patterns, data structures, and distributed architecture.
- Demonstrated care for observability and reliability.
- Experience with engineering best practices and testing automation.
- Values team success and can uplift other engineers.
Skills
- Java
- Backend Services
- API Development
- Data Engineering
- Scala
- Spring
- GCP
- NextJS
- GraphQL
- Design Patterns
- Data Structures
- Distributed Architecture
- Observability
- Reliability
- Testing Automation
Location
- North America
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $132,949.00 - $189,927.00 plus equity
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Six month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
About the Company
- Spotify's mission is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with its unique value proposition for audio and video.
- Spotify aims to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers.
- Spotify is an equal opportunity employer.
- Spotify is passionate about inclusivity and ensuring its recruitment process is accessible to everyone.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 has ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
