Spotify appears to be planning to enter the Web3 area as it’s on the lookout for a senior backend engineer who can leverage new applied sciences together with Web3 for the corporate’s Freemium R&D workforce. Web3 has turn into a catchall time period for applied sciences that can be a part of the following era of the web, which is envisioned as a extra decentralized community than we’ve now with Web 2.0.
According to the job description on the posting By the corporate on LinkedIn, the vacant place is within the Edison workforce throughout the Freemium, which is an experimental development workforce.
“We work on taking a high potential idea that can reach new audiences, running a deep-dive exploration, and building and testing it with real users; Through A/B testing we take data-informed decisions to connect artists and fans,” reads the total job description.
The new appointee will each construct and run experiments whereas additionally delivering user-facing options. According to Statista, Spotify had as many as 406 million month-to-month lively customers within the final quarter of 2021, of whom 180 million are premium subscribers paying for the service.
The job description additionally mentions some expertise stipulations together with expertise constructing backend tasks at scale and a complicated understanding of distributed, high-volume companies, JVM (Java Virtual Machine) ideas. It additionally asks for expertise designing, implementing, and scaling cloud-native software program parts.
Spotify’s transfer into Web3 applied sciences has come simply weeks after YouTube had introduced its entry into the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse. The Google-owned video streaming platform help it wished to leverage Web3 and its components to attach with audiences “on a deeper level”.
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