Senior Data Engineer - Composer (Remote Eligible - EMEA)

Posted 3 years ago
In Spotify's Composer product area we combine state-of-the art backend services with groundbreaking data processing tools to solve problems in the finance domain through engineering. We are looking for senior software engineers who are passionate about data to focus on building structured, high-quality data solutions. These implementations will be used to support our systems capable of handling the financial reporting and insights for all of Spotify’s current and future revenue streams. Using tools like BigQuery, Dataflow, Apache Beam we process millions of subscription and payment related events on a daily basis to keep track of sales, revenue and cash in the 80+ markets where Spotify is available. We also make use of and contribute to in-house built data tools such as Scio, a Scala API for Apache Beam and Luigi, an orchestration framework for data pipelines.

Who you are

  • BS/MS in CS or other relevant fields of study
  • 3+ experience with designing and building highly scalable data solutions
  • You don’t like leaving questions unanswered and you love exploring/understanding data
  • You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and testability.
  • You are passionate about crafting clean code and have a steady foundation in coding and building data pipelines
  • You love visualising your data findings in a clear and easy to understand way and to capture corner cases of implementations
  • You are interested in being the glue between engineering and finance

What you'll do

  • Explore new ways of producing, processing, and analysing data in order to gain insights into key metrics such as revenue and cash
  • Design, develop, and test data-driven products and features that can handle millions of financial events per day
  • Work with state-of-the-art data processing frameworks, technologies, and platforms
  • Improve data quality through testing, tooling and continuously evaluating the performance
  • Work with other software engineers, business stakeholders and decision-makers, such as product managers, to build solutions and gain novel insights
  • Act as the bridge between our technology and finance departments and reinvent outdated, monolithic financial processes
  • Work in multi-functional agile teams with end-to-end responsibility for product development and delivery
  • Work from our awesome Stockholm HQ's

Where you'll be

  • We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is 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. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
  • Working hours? We operate within the CET time zone for collaboration
You are welcome at Spotify 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. Spotify 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 345 million users.