Backend Engineer - Music - Remote

Overview

The Rights Systems team is driving the technical foundations of a step-change for Spotify’s business by enabling the distribution of new forms of content across the platform. This challenge involves detection of rights-protected intellectual property and facilitating rightsholder and creator management of both the rights-protected IP and the secondary content.

In Short

• Work with a fullstack team to build and launch backend services & data pipelines.
• Collaborate with product, insights, design, and other backend engineers.
• Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality backend code.
• Maintain data pipelines for the Rights ecosystem.
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions.
• Advocate for modern, agile software development practices.
• Work with external teams for consumer video experiences.
• Contribute to a healthy, collaborative team culture.
• Engage in team-wide product ideation with specialists and product managers.
• Work in an environment that supports individual growth.

Requirements

• Strong command of backend development best practices.
• Experience in designing and building distributed services in Java or similar languages.
• Understanding of delivering data solutions using Scio and Scala.
• Exposure to data warehouses and orchestration platforms.
• Experience supporting high throughput user-facing systems.
• Ownership of solutions from scoping to deployment.
• Quality assurance through testing and automation techniques.
• Understanding of object-oriented and functional programming.
• Proactive in identifying tech debt.
• Interest in expanding data skillset.

Benefits

• Flexibility to work from home.
• In-person meetings for collaboration.
• Opportunities for individual growth and skill acquisition.