Backend Developer

One of Swedens most exciting Tech companies within music streaming and media services are now looking for a Backend Developer to join in a consultant assignment!

Description:
We are looking for a Backend Engineer Contractor to join our Content Platform engineering organization. Content Platform is a central enabler. Together, our teams ensure that comapany has a complete, safe, available and enriched catalog of music, podcasts, videos and more. Come join our team of talented backend engineers that share a common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability and continued development.

You will build the backend systems that power our content integrity platform that enables feature teams to launch new products safely and efficiently.

What you'll do
Design, develop and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
Continuously improve our product by innovating on the service through the usage of A/B tests.
Improve our content ingestion and asset management systems built in Java and deployed in GCP (GCS, bigquery, bigtable knowledge all pluses).

Who you are
You have at least 3+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer
You are comfortable writing Java
You are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
You are experienced working with modern infrastructure and tools
You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming and automated testing
You’re familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems and enjoy seeing millions of users running your code
You have good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions

Where you'll be
We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode best for them!
Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the EMEA region in which we have a work location
Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome 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.

We transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 365 million users.