Backend Engineer building reliable backend services for Spotify's mobile app experience. Collaborating with engineers to design APIs and improve user-facing experiences on a global 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.
Requirements
You know how to build and maintain backend services, ideally using Java or a similar language.
You have an understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems concepts.
You care about reliability, testing, observability, and continuous delivery.
You are familiar with tools commonly used at scale, such as Git, BigQuery, Grafana, JUnit, and PagerDuty.
You are comfortable using AI tools to improve developer workflows and boost productivity.
You are curious, proactive, and eager to learn new approaches and technologies.
You enjoy collaborating with others and shaping both systems and ways of working.
You have experience exploring or applying GenAI to improve developer experience or engineering efficiency.
You are excited about building backend services that power user-facing experiences at massive scale.
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