Software Engineer (Backend)

Description of company

We want to connect millions of people with their favourite songs and create a service that people love to use. We believe music should be easily accessible and that listening to music will make people live richer lives. We want to create a win-win situation for people who love listening to music and people who love creating music.

Preferably you're located in (or willing to relocate to) Stockholm, Sweden.

Main responsibilities of the team

Most Spotify backend components are written in Python, C/C++ or Java. We operate mostly in a GNU/Linux environment. Most of our systems are small and decoupled. They can typically be fully understood and maintained by a single developer.

As a backend developer at Spotify, you will create, develop and maintain these systems. You will be working with dedicated and passionate computer geeks. Availability, scalability and code quality are our prime concerns. While some of us have fancy degrees (MSc, PhD), this is definitely not a requirement.


Responsibilities

* Hacking on Spotify backend software components
* Assuming ownership over certain components and continuously working to improve them
* Being proactive and constantly paying attention to the scalability, performance and availability of our systems
* Occasionally helping out with recruitment


Requirements

* Coding is one of your passions in life
* You are fluent in more than one programming language
* You wish to work on a very large system with many millions of users
* Nothing from low level hacking to large scale design intimidates you
* You shun superficial knowledge and always desire to fully grok things
* You either have, or wish to acquire, extensive experience of development in Unix-like systems such as GNU/Linux
* You take an interest in, and preferably actively contribute to, the world of Free and Open Source Software - show us what you got!