Job Description
At Spotify, we're building the revenue platform that drives how revenue and taxes are processed across the company, enabling reliable, scalable financial operations across every market, product line, and partner. Our systems are essential to Spotify’s ability to earn, track, and report revenue and taxes, supporting everything from subscriptions and advertising to creator payouts.
### What You'll Do
- Gain deep expertise in Spotify’s revenue platform, understanding how it enables financial operations, compliance, and strategic decision-making.
- Design and implement scalable backend and data systems that process millions of transactions daily, supporting accurate tax calculation, billing, revenue recognition, financial configuration, and tax reporting.
- Build intuitive, self-serve tools that empower Finance teams to define and manage product-specific revenue and tax configuration independently, without requiring engineering involvement.
- Develop and enhance modular platform capabilities that encode critical enterprise workflows, promoting consistency, reusability, and ease of maintenance across financial systems.
- Lead the creation of new platform capabilities within the Tax Solutions space, focusing on Tax Reporting and global regulatory compliance.
- Partner closely with Engineers, Product, and Finance stakeholders to design systems that are scalable, auditable, and highly reliable.
- Champion engineering best practices, strong architectural design, and operational excellence across backend and data platforms.
- Foster a collaborative team culture rooted in shared ownership, constructive feedback, and continuous improvement.
### Who You Are
- You have experience in data engineering, including building and maintaining data pipelines.
- You are proficient in Python and ideally Scala or Java.
- You possess a foundational understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms, coupled with a strong desire to learn quickly, embrace feedback, and continuously improve your technical skills.
- You’re familiar with cloud-native development and deployment, ideally within the Google Cloud Platform.
- You think critically about system design and strive to build solutions that are reliable, maintainable, and auditable.