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Senior Backend Engineer

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Spotify

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Location:
United Kingdom; Sweden, London

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Category:
IT - Software Development

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Contract Type:
Not provided

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Salary:

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Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Subscriptions Mission. This team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify. As a Senior Backend Engineer you will participate in building and maintaining the systems responsible for driving user conversion, retention and upsells together with other R&D teams, Marketing and Growth. The team is uniquely positioned to play a key role in a new effort to strengthen our platform capabilities in this area to support the rapidly growing business needs of the ever-changing product portfolio. We are moving towards a more user focused, contextual conversion, retention and upsell experience that is less manually operated, and more consistent across channels, using levers like machine learning and personalisation. We want to solve this through a platformised approach utilising new systems for decision-making on what we want users to see combined with a content management solution that can handle all the necessary complexities.

Job Responsibility:

  • Architect, develop and operate Java services that serve our users through the merchandising platform to enable cohesive and relevant conversion and upsell journeys
  • Collaborate with our squad and key internal partners to determine how to design scalable backend systems, data models and APIs that run on Google Cloud Platform
  • Be a technical leader, mentor and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile squad, in close collaboration with other squads and business stakeholders
  • Collaborate with other squads, engineering managers and product managers to identify and solve challenging problems, to successfully scale our automation and new platform capabilities

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of working experience as a Backend Engineer working with Java
  • Strong computer science fundamentals
  • Previous experience building complex backend services at scale
  • Experience in designing, implementing, and scaling cloud-native software components on providers such as GCP, AWS, etc.
  • Experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements
  • Comfortable working collaboratively on cross-functional teams and independently driving complex delivery initiatives
  • Experience writing distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and operate them in production
  • A growth mindset and passion about your work, striving towards the team’s goals and the Spotify Mission

Nice to have:

  • Additional tools and technologies such as gRPC, GCP, BigQuery and Bigtable are a plus
  • Experience modelling, building and operating integrations with external CMS solutions or working with ML teams for recommendations and data pipelines
What we offer:
  • Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
  • Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
  • Global parental leave, six months off - for all new parents
  • All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
  • Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
  • Flexibility to work where you work best

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 12, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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