Backend Engineer - Music

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. The journey ahead will present the team with the chance to collaborate with teams across the company (Content Platform, Financial Engineering, Label Partnership, Licensing, and others) in order to create and present novel content datasets to end-users. As the product matures, the team will stretch as they scale to broader use cases and a larger user base. Being a cornerstone of the company's video-first strategy, the rights systems solution space will be an area of investment and growth for the company over the next 2-5 years, and the team is projected to grow from a single squad to a product area.

The squad on which this role is a founding member will specialize in Rights data, creating a net new domain within Spotify's data landscape that is a system of record for IP rights ownership of the content we have on platform at Spotify.

What You'll Do

• Work with a fullstack team to build and launch backend services & data pipelines that power a new rights database to serve as a source of truth for Spotify.
• Work closely with product, insights, design and other backend engineers to understand the needs our of external customers and internal partners (Music Expression, Content Platform, Financial Engineering, Licensing & Publishing).
• Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality backend code.
• Maintain data pipelines that undergird our Rights ecosystem.
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs.
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
• Work with external teams when needed to deliver consumer video experiences in the Spotify consumer application.
• Contribute to a healthy, collaborative team culture in line with what we value.
• Contribute to our team-wide product ideation in collaboration with other specialists, researchers, product managers, and subject-matter experts on the team.
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with exciting work, the freedom to acquire new skills on hack days, reading groups, and a variety of internal training courses.

Who You Are

• You have a strong command of backend development best practices and a proven track record of delivering DRY, maintainable code that scales across all levels of production-level traffic.
• You are experienced in designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java or similar languages.
• You have a working understanding of delivering data solutions using Scio and Scala.
• You have some exposure to data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, etc., and orchestration platforms like Flyte.
• You are accustomed to supporting high throughput user-facing systems in production and apply your learnings from prior incidents when building new features.
• You own your solutions end-to-end, from scoping tickets through to deployment and smoke testing your features in production.
• You ensure the quality of your code with modern testing, debugging and automation techniques.
• You have a solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms.
• You proactively identify tech debt and work with your team to get it prioritized.
• You're interested in rounding out your data skillset to make yourself a stronger web developer.
• You care about software architecture across the front-end, back-end, and the APIs gluing them together.
• You're excited to learn new problem spaces and domainsYou prioritize team success to create further opportunity for yourself and teammates.

Where You'll Be

• This role is based in London.
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

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.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have 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.

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