2023 Nyc Technology Fellowship Program

We are currently looking for candidates to participate in our Spotify New York City Technology Fellowship Program -- a development program aimed at hiring engineers just entering the professional tech environment from a diverse set of backgrounds. Throughout the 19 week program participants in the Fellowship will operate as a team and eventually embed on a squad within Spotify while receiving mentoring, personal & professional development from a broad set of employees to help them reach their full potential and learn what it’s like to work at Spotify.

What You'll Do:

• Be a member of the Spotify-wide developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company.
• Architect, design, develop, deploy and connect a variety of services such as backends, frontends and pipelines.
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
• Work from our beautiful and vibrant office located in FIDI, New York City where we solve problems in Monetization, Music Recommendations, Features for Artists, Social Networking and more.
• Collaborate with other engineers, tech leads, product owners, engineer managers, and other disciplines to solve interesting and challenging problems and develop in Spotify's ecosystem.
• Develop your software engineering, and interpersonal business skills through mentors, your cohort, fellowship community, projects, and the embed phase.
• Work closely with members of your team, collaborating on projects and exchanging ideas to ensure the software development process is executed with precision and attention to detail.

Discipline specific descriptions:

Backend: Backend engineers at Spotify use technologies such as Java, Apollo, MySQL, and Bigtable to build backend systems powering our app, internal tools, and partner integrations.

Frontend: Frontend engineers at Spotify primarily use Javascript, along with frameworks such as React, Node, TypeScript to build web pages powering our app, internal tools, and partner integrations.

Data: Data engineers at Spotify use technologies such as Scala, Scio, BigQuery and BigTable to build data pipelines powering our app, internal tools and partner integrations.

Who You Are:

• You have a passion for tech, audio, Spotify, or some intersection of those.
• You are either self-taught or a bootcamp or community school graduate looking to start your career in tech.
• You have the ability to explain a complex problem, concept, or past challenge in a clear and concise way
• You can solve a programming problem and debug it
• You have practical language experience with one or more of the following languages: Javascript, Java, Python, C, C++,, C#, Ruby
• You demonstrate critical thinking skills
• You have good communication skills

Nice To Have:

• Some knowledge of algorithmsReal world experience
• Demonstrated experience working on group projects (does not have to be a technical project)
• A basic understanding of data structures and when to use them (hashmap, set, vector, linked list, trees)
• Leadership abilities

$70,000 - $90,000 a year

The United States base range for this position is $70,000-$90,000. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, monthly meal allowance, 23 annual paid days off, 13 annual paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.

The deadline to apply for this position is 11:59 PM, EST on June 14th.

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.