Senior Backend Engineer – Audiobooks

🕒 May 20

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Spotify

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2008

📱 Media

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

Media • B2C • eCommerce

Spotify is a global audio streaming service company that offers its users access to a vast library of music and podcasts. Known for its focus on delivering personalized listening experiences, Spotify employs data scientists, engineers, and client partners across various global locations to continuously innovate and enhance its offerings. The company fosters a strong culture of diversity, equity, and impact, emphasizing belonging and inclusion in its workforce. Spotify is not only committed to shaping the future of audio entertainment but also to making a positive societal impact, with initiatives focused on social and environmental issues.

📋 Description

• Design and build systems that power audiobook ingestion, transformation, and delivery — ensuring performance, accuracy, and scalability across millions of titles. • Contribute across the stack, from backend services and APIs to lightweight interfaces or operational tools, depending on the team’s evolving needs. • Collaborate with engineers, PMs, and designers to translate sophisticated workflows into elegant, maintainable, and reliable systems. • Be responsible for your impact — take operational responsibility for the services you build and drive continuous improvement in reliability and performance. • Adapt and T-shape: Step into areas beyond your comfort zone (e.g., data pipelines, internal tooling, or deployment infrastructure) as the mission evolves. • Author and review RFCs, sharing your insights and shaping technical decisions that affect the broader Audiobooks ecosystem. • Embrace the Audiobooks Mission expectations: operate with “short toes,” take ownership beyond team boundaries, and value pragmatic, reversible decisions. • Mentor and collaborate with peers, sharing knowledge and contributing to an inclusive, psychologically safe engineering culture.

🎯 Requirements

• You have 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally across backend systems and distributed architectures. • You’re highly proficient in Spotify's backend tech stack (Java/gRPC/GCP). • You have some data experience and a willingness to work across the stack when needed — not because you have to, but because you’re curious. • You care about clean, maintainable, and testable code and take ownership of quality and operational excellence. • You thrive in ambiguous, fast paced environments, enjoy context-switching, and value quick, pragmatic decision-making. • You demonstrate data proficiency, curiosity about the business domain, and a desire to understand the broader audiobook ecosystem. • You’re collaborative, humble, and growth-minded — adopting Spotify’s playful culture and Audiobooks Mission ethos of experimentation, ownership, and continuous learning.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Flexible work arrangements