Software Engineer - Baldur/Gandalf

We are looking for dedicated, engaged software engineers that are passionate about working on highly available, low latency client SDKs and the related backend services in the authorization and configuration domains to join our teams. These form the backbone of our product experience for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. You’ll be directly helping with the evolution of Spotify’s overall authentication and session management infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Be part of an autonomous and cross functional team of Mobile and Backend Engineers along with members from Product, Design and Insights to identify and tackle important problems in the Authentication and Session Management domains.
• Build highly scalable backend services and SDKs that bring the happiness of music to millions of users.
• Write clean and maintainable code that will scale across a number of projects and distributed development teams
• Share knowledge, promote best practices, and collaborate with some of the best engineers in the company
• Improve developer experience, the team is driven by a strong focus on clean APIs and engineering efficiency
  
  

Who You Are

• You enjoy solving problems end to end and if needed proactively learn the skills needed to solve them.
• You are proficient in C++ and Java, including modern C++ standards.
• Experience in iOS (Objective C / Swift) or Android (Kotlin) development is a plus.
• You are an inclusive colleague and a true phenomenal teammate.
• You have experience with strong testing practices, A/B testing or CI/CD
• You're passionate about your work, striving towards the goals of the team and, ultimately, the Spotify mission - “giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be passionate about it"
  
  

Where You'll Be

• This role is based in London or Stockholm.
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in-person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
  
  

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. 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.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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.