Backend Engineer - Platform and Partners Consumer Experience

Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them. 

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Platform & Partner Experience studio. Our teams are responsible for all of Spotify’s consumer experiences in platforms like desktop, web, TVs, smart speakers, cars, wearables, and partner application integrations to make Spotify available wherever our users are.

We are working together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their own part of the Spotify ecosystem, including writing code with high standards, hosting our services in Google Cloud Platform, monitoring our services, measuring quality, and guaranteeing service reliability. Some teams work with a feature like search, others focus on voice integrations or making it easy to deploy features on a certain type of client. You will join a team where everyone shares a common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability and continued development. Together we try to find new ways to create a phenomenal Spotify experience for all our users across the globe.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability.
• Build and operate infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with other engineers and become a valued member of an autonomous, cross- functional team.
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call rotation.
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth.
• Continuously improve our product by innovating on the service through the usage of A/B tests.

Who You Are

• You feel comfortable with Java code and have contributed to the development and maintenance of a few backend services.
• You are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise.
• You are comfortable working with modern infrastructure and tools.
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery and automated testing.
• You’re familiar with the design of distributed and scalable systems and enjoy being part of a team that owns services with millions of users.
• You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions.
• You are fluent with: Git, BigQuery, Grafana, JUnit, PagerDuty.

Where You’ll Be

• This role is based in London.
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.