Sunday, February 26, 2012

Job opening - Backend Developer in the Payment team at Spotify (Stockholm, Sweden)

We’re seeking experienced software engineers to join our payment team in Stockholm, Sweden. The engineers we’re looking for have a passion for software development, especially in complex systems that demand extreme accuracy and good software design skills.
 
About the team
The payment team is responsible for the payment backend systems, a core system in the Spotify backend. Most of the payment backend systems are built in Python, some minor parts in Java, and all services are running in a GNU/Linux environment. The ideal candidate should therefore have a passion about Python and extensive experience working in UNIX-like systems.
 
We’re an agile company, and it is not uncommon that the code we are writing goes live within a few days. Developers at Spotify have huge responsibility and the payment team is involved in many high priority projects. Some example of projects the team is working with:


  • Scaling the systems to our growing user numbers

  • Integrating with new payment providers

  • Preventing fraud

  • New campaigns and product types

  • Improve system to reduce churn

  • Supporting partner integrations


Responsibilities



  • Hacking on the Spotify payment backend

  • Assuming ownership over certain components in the payment backend 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



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