Backend Engineer - Subscriptions
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Requirements
• Know how to build and maintain backend services using Java or a similar language. • Understand data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems concepts. • Care about reliability, testing, observability, and continuous delivery. • Familiar with tools commonly used at scale such as Git, BigQuery, Grafana, JUnit, and PagerDuty. • Comfortable using AI tools to improve developer workflows and boost productivity. • Curious, proactive, eager to learn new approaches and technologies. • Enjoys collaborating with others and shaping both systems and ways of working. • Experience exploring or applying GenAI for improving developer experience or engineering efficiency. • Excited about building backend services that power user-facing experiences at massive scale
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and operate backend services that are reliable, low-latency, and ready to scale globally. • Partner with engineers and product teams across Spotify to design APIs and data flows that power user-facing experiences. • Take ownership of your services end-to-end, including operations and on-call participation. • Evolve our architecture to support new features, performance improvements, and long-term technical health. • Use experimentation and data to drive decisions and improve feature quality. • Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and continuous improvement practices. • Learn, grow, and contribute to Spotify's engineering culture through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and curiosity.
Benefits
• Flexible working location with occasional in-person meetings. • Opportunity to grow and contribute within Spotify's engineering culture through collaboration and knowledge sharing. • Familiarity with tools commonly used at scale such as Git, BigQuery, Grafana, JUnit, and PagerDuty is required or preferred.