TL;DR Understanding algorithmic impact is critical to building a platform that serves hundreds of millions of listeners and creators every [...]
Published by Henriette Cramer (Head of Algorithmic Impact, Director of Trust & Safety Research) and Amar Ashar (Senior Researcher, Lead Algorithmic Impact & Equity)
This past year, a few of us who focus on the reliability of Spotify for Artists (S4A) spent some time [...]
Published by Clint Byrum, Staff Engineer
In September 2020, we had the exciting opportunity to partner with The Marcy Lab School with the hopes of creating [...]
Published by Kathryn Gundersen, Education Program Manager
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… I’m part of the Mambas team at Spotify, which is responsible for [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
TL;DR Over the years, Spotify’s brand has expanded to encompass a number of products, from mobile apps to web players [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
8:30am I’m at my best after nine hours’ sleep, so I tend to wake up pretty late, shower and dress as [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Team purpose and pride — my team hit those high marks, but it was a long journey to get there [...]
Published by Sophia Ciocca, Web Engineer
Nour is a Security Engineer at Spotify New York – juggling her busy day job with completing her Masters in Cyber Security and looking after her 10-month-old daughter, Leya.
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Search @ Spotify Search is a well-established functionality across different industries, devices, and applications. When users come to any kind [...]
Published by Hugo Galvão and Daniel Doro
5:00 am My days begin with an early morning wake-up call from Zev – he comes through at around 5am and [...]
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TL;DR Spotify encourages engineers to become T-shaped and lean into technologies and skill sets outside of their core specialization. Being [...]
Published by Tyce Clee
Matt is a Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer and has been at Spotify for two-and-a-half years. This time last year, he was living and working in London – but that’s all changed since the start of the pandemic…
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2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the curtain [...]
Published by Javier Moscardó (Mosca)
In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It was expected [...]
Published by Erin Depew
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you [...]
Published by Gandalf Hernandez
“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures where humanity has become extinct and only one where humanity [...]
Published by Gary Niemen
Erick joined our Stockholm office as an iOS Engineer more than 18 months ago. But right now, he’s working from home and missing the camaraderie of his close-knit team.
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Alia works as an Agile Coach Manager in our New York office. But right now, she’s 150km away – working from her house in the Hudson Valley and navigating a non-stop schedule of Hangout meetings.
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Ann is a Senior Research Scientist and has worked in our New York office for just over a year. She spoke to us from her apartment in Fort Greene, which she shares with her husband and two rescue dogs, Birdie and Buttercup [...]
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TL;DR Have you made a significant decision that impacts how engineers write software? Write an ADR! An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is [...]
Published by Josef Blake
Stefan works as a Senior Product Manager in our Stockholm office. But at the moment, he – like much of the world – is working from home, [...]
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Tony joined Spotify New York last summer as VP of Engineering and Head of Machine Learning. Here, he talks us through his busy working days and explains why he’s glad to be part of the band [...]
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Per is our Head of Patents and has worked at Spotify in Stockholm for almost three years. For him, the working day begins and ends with an invigorating commute by bike [...]
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Hear from John Allspaw – former CTO of Etsy and one of the leading members of the DevOps movement – [...]
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