Backend Engineer – User Fraud

Job Description

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our User Fraud team. Our mission is to ensure the integrity of Spotify’s growth by detecting, mitigating, and preventing unwanted behaviour on our platform.You will join a multi-functional team of data/backend/ML engineers and data scientists, working together to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new fraud prevention products. You will build backend services and data pipelines powering our fraud prevention platform and you will help the team move fraud insights into high-quality engineering solutions that are robust and scalable.For this role, we are looking for an engineer who has a genuine passion for data and wants to learn and discover new tech and develop new competencies. You will drive our backend work but you will also highly contribute to our data infrastructure, data pipelines and data strategy.What you will do

• Directly contribute to the design and architecture of Spotify’s fraud prevention platform
• Build, maintain and operate backend services for fast and accurate prevention of unwanted behaviour
• Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scio and the Google Cloud Platform feeding into our fraud prevention logic
• Develop in different technologies and infrastructure, ranging from Java to Scala and Python.
• Use standard methodologies in continuous integration and delivery.
• Be a role model for engineering excellence and high-quality craftsmanship
• Mentor other engineers to help them reach their full potential

Who you are

• BS/MS in CS or relevant working experience
• Demonstrable experience with designing and building highly scalable backend systems/data pipelines
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Strong coding skills preferably in either Java, Scala, or Python
• Basic understanding of building and operating cloud-based services
• Worked in teams with both data engineers, data scientists, and backend engineers
• Have experience operating backend services and/or data pipelines
• Curious and passionate about learning new skills within other domains
• A great team player
• Have the ability and passion to explain complex topics in simple terms

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 Eastern Standard Time Zone for collaboration purposes

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.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.