System Developer

By developing systems and tools to help our organization to find patterns and trends, understanding and solving complex problems in a structured way and reaching valuable data driven conclusions, you will be a key part of the team responsible for these tasks.

Who are we looking for?

We look for an outstanding software engineer who is thrilled by building large systems and tools to handle and make most use of large amount of data, either by developing middle layer data warehouses or developing and maintaining the large data clusters to process vast data volumes in the most efficient way for hundreds of millions of users.
You also need intellectual curiosity and the ability to understand and solve not always well-defined problems to understand how systems can help to guide our business decisions.
The skills should also be combined with a passion for numbers, statistics as well as a business and financial acumen.
Most of the Spotify backend is written in Python, but previous experience with Python is not required. If you?re the one we?re looking for, you want to grow and learning new programming languages is something you do with ease anyway. You probably also have a couple of hobby projects that you want to show us. You should preferably have worked with system development and large data sets before, the larger, the better.

Some of the technologies we?re working with are Hadoop, PIG, Hive, Storm, Kafka and Cassandra. Experience with any of these technologies is definitely something we value. Our Hadoop cluster is currently the largest commercially used cluster in Europe (700 nodes)!

You?ll be working with a world-class team of analysts and engineers who are passionate about what they do - and we expect no less from you. You should have an insatiable appetite for learning new things and improving existing ones. If you?re the right one for us, you pay attention to details and take great pride in your work.

People who meet us tend to comment on our energy, and the passion we have for what we?re doing. We hope it?s infectious! At such a fast moving start up you?ll find opportunities rather than boundaries in every single role.