Fullstack/Backend Engineer, Experimentation Platform

at  Spotify

Backend
Think it, build it, ship it, tweak it” is at the core of Spotify’s development approach, and in the Experimentation product area we are providing Spotify teams the platform and the best practices to do exactly this: quickly and safely iterate through ideas, learn from them and make informed decisions for better products.
Location
London
Job type
Permanent

Today we are running simultaneous experiments across several hundreds of teams working on a multitude of different products built for hundreds of millions of users. Experimentation touches almost all of our functions from marketing via content management to consumer products. On top of that, we’re making our experimentation platform available to external companies in the form of Confidence. And we are only in the very beginning of this transformative journey. You will join a multidisciplinary team that shares the passion of bringing the best experimentation platform to the world. As an engineer in our team you will have the opportunity to develop all your engineering skills - from core backend systems to sophisticated frontends. If you want to understand more about our products and Experimental Platform, please check out the links below:

• Introduction to Confidence
• Experiment like Spotify

What You’ll Do

• Develop new high-scale services within the experimentation domain
• Work across the full stack (backend, frontend, data) with an emphasis on backend, to bring features and solutions to life
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional team and contribute to growing the skills and knowledge of your peers
• Facilitate collaboration with other specialists, product owners, and designers to ensure we deliver the maximum value to our customers
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with challenging work, the freedom to acquire new skills during hack days, through participation in thematic guilds, and through a variety of internal training courses
• Join our on-call rotations

Who You Are

• You have several years of working experience in building scalable systems
• You are proficient in Java and Typescript/Javascript
• You have a solid backend foundation and you feel comfortable working across the entire tech stack and have a keen interest to develop your skills in new domains
• You have experience and knowledge from a broad set of technologies and practices, for example, experimentation, UX/frontend, API design and implementation, or cloud stacks such as GCP
• You are a generalist with a product-focused mindset, not afraid of stepping out of your role to get things done
• You have experience working in a high-ambiguity environment where taking initiative is expected - maybe you have been an early employee at a startup
• You show a deep knowledge of how to write robust, maintainable applications, and a reasonable understanding of how to work with distributed high-volume applications

Where You’ll Be

• You’ll be based in London, UK

Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Learn about life at Spotify
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 with a community of more than 500 million users.
Learn more about our cultur

• Develop new high-scale services within the experimentation domain
• Work across the full stack (backend, frontend, data) with an emphasis on backend, to bring features and solutions to life
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional team and contribute to growing the skills and knowledge of your peers
• Facilitate collaboration with other specialists, product owners, and designers to ensure we deliver the maximum value to our customers
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with challenging work, the freedom to acquire new skills during hack days, through participation in thematic guilds, and through a variety of internal training courses
• Join our on-call rotation