Backend Engineer - Podcast

The Podcast Mission is the product and technology team at Spotify dedicated to building tools for podcast creators. We develop and maintain products that provide an outstanding creator experience, enabling podcasters to host, build, distribute, monetize, and grow their podcasts. Our tools also help podcasters continuously understand and engage with their audience.

What You'll Do

• Solve complex backend challenges related to the publishing platform for our enterprise customers.
• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain Ruby on Rails applications and Java microservices, that provide content management capabilities such as uploading, thumbnails, transcripts, clips, polls, trailers and other interactivity features.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, designers and other engineering teams to identify and tackle sophisticated problems.
• Embrace and learn best practices and design patterns.
• Have opportunities to gain expertise in data engineering.

Who You Are

• Proficiency in Ruby on Rails and experience working with Java microservices
• Passionate about creating end-to-end user experiences and have a keen interest in software architecture, encompassing the frontend, backend, and the APIs that connect them.
• Professional experience in an environment dedicated to product development.
• Committed to delivering high-quality code that is well-tested.
• Highly value collaboration within and across teams to achieve optimal outcomes for the organization.
• Prioritize business impact and understand the trade-offs between complex technical solutions and simpler approaches that cater to different stages of product development.

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EST timezone as long as we have a work location. 

The United States base range for this position is $122,716 -$175,308 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 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. These ranges may be modified in the future.