Senior Backend Engineer – Subscriptions

🕒 April 2

🏢🏡 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, build, and run scalable Java services that power our merchandising platform and support conversion and upsell journeys • Work closely with your squad to design backend systems, APIs, and data models on Google Cloud Platform • Partner with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to solve meaningful technical challenges • Improve and scale data pipelines that support experimentation, heuristics, and machine learning applications • Contribute to architecture decisions that improve reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability • Support production systems end-to-end, ensuring services are observable, reliable, and continuously improving • Share knowledge through code reviews and collaboration, helping strengthen the team’s technical practices

🎯 Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience building backend systems using Java • You have strong computer science fundamentals and experience working with distributed systems at scale • You have experience designing and operating cloud-native services (e.g., GCP or AWS) • You are comfortable designing APIs and working with partners to translate needs into scalable solutions • You have experience running high-volume services in production and understand reliability, observability, and performance • You collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and take ownership of complex work from idea to delivery • You seek feedback, learn continuously, and look for ways to improve systems and how teams work together • You have experience with technologies such as gRPC, BigQuery, Bigtable, CMS integrations, or ML-driven systems