Junior Backend Engineer - Content Catalog
Spotify
London, United Kingdom
What You'll Do
- Design, develop and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
- Build and operate infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines
- Collaborate closely with other engineers in the team and product area and also across Spotify (our group of stakeholders is wide and diverse) and become a valued member of our team
- Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call and goalie rotation
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
- Continuously improve our product by innovating on the service and being close with other development and product teams
Who You Are
- You hold a degree in computer science or similar subject and have at least 1+ years of working experience in a similar backend engineering position
- You are comfortable designing, implementing and maintaining systems with Java in symbiosis with a handful of other languages when needed (e.g Python, Scala) and know what clean code is
- You are able to reason about trade offs of different databases and preferably have hands on experience with SQL and No SQL ones
- Our engineers are T-shaped, which means being capable of using the right technology as a tool when needed. If you have some data engineering experience or are keen to learn it - that’s a bonus!
- You are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
- You are comfortable working with modern infrastructure and tools
- You are comfortable running your software in Linux environments
- You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming and automated testing
- You enjoy seeing millions of users running your code
- You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms
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