• Engineering

• Data

We are looking for an engaged and enthusiastic Senior Engineer to join our Royalties & Reporting (RoaR) teams in the United States. We are responsible for designing, building, and maintaining complex systems to process billions of data points from Spotify’s internal datasets to accurately calculate and report publishing royalties. The team is cross-functional, consisting of Data and Backend Engineers, and is well supported by a skilled Product Owner.

Location

New York or Remote ESTAmericas

Job type

Permanent

Our core challenge is to understand and model a complex business domain. Our systems must be flexible enough to allow Spotify to innovate while at the same time simple enough to enable us to build solutions that follow the best engineering practices and can be easily understood.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop new functionality using the latest technology (Scala, Scio, Java, Flyte, Styx, Docker, etc.) to enable innovative ways of compensating artists.
• Build and operate infrastructure, toolset, and deployment pipelines
• Advocate for the best architecture standards, drive sound technical decisions, and promote innovative solutions in an iterative, fail-fast environment.
• Work in an encouraging team that allows engineers to be creative and seek exciting ideas.
• Collaborate closely with your teammates and leads. You will contribute to building a solid team with high-quality output and create a culture of innovation and playfulness.
• Work closely with the product manager, end-users, and business partners to understand, document, solve and analyze requirements for complex data solutions.
• Financial legislation covers our systems, and you will help us improve our automated change management controls.
• Hack on what you want during regular team hack days and annual Spotify hack weeks.

Who You Are

• You have proven experience in building production-quality data solutions with complex business domain logic in high-level programming languages (Scala, Java, Python, etc.)
• Comfortable working with Google Cloud Platform or other commercial cloud environments.
• Passionate about Data design, reliability, and quality.
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like CI/CD, defensive programming, and automated testing.
• Have experience working with both technical and non-technical customers.
• A strong analytical problem solver, comfortable taking on loosely defined problems, and not afraid to experiment with new technologies to tackle our customer’s problems.
• You are a self-motivated individual contributor and phenomenal teammate who can multitask, prioritize and communicate progress in a constantly evolving environment.
• Interested in building skills to improve your T-shapeness with analytics and backend engineering.
• Knowledgeable about modern infrastructure and tools.
• You have experience working in an agile environment.
• Have a Master's degree in Computer Science or relevant working experience.
• Collaborate well in a distributed team and make time to have fun with your colleagues.

Where You'll Be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location.
• 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 Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.

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

The United States base range for this position is $156,275 - $223,250, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance.

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.