Backend Engineer II

at  Spotify

Backend
The Subscriptions R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.
Locations
London
Stockholm
Job type
Permanent

What You’ll Do

• Deliver towards company objectives to enable tiered value & feature degradation across the freemium platform
• Work closely with mobile engineers on the squad, as well as team members from Product, Data Science, User Research and Design disciplines
• Collaborate closely with engineers across our product area to streamline our features and system capabilities
• Design, develop and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call and goalie rotation

Who You Are

• Knowledge of building and scaling backend services
• Knowledge with (or interest in) data and data pipelines (Scio)
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a positive and proactive attitude
• Ability to draw diagrams to express design and architecture
• Eager to learn and collaborate with others
• Strong writing and communication skills

Where You’ll Be

• This role will be based out of the London or Stockholm office

Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Learn about life at Spotify
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 with a community of more than 500 million users.
Learn more about our cultur

• Deliver towards company objectives to enable tiered value & feature degradation across the freemium platform
• Work closely with mobile engineers on the squad, as well as team members from Product, Data Science, User Research and Design disciplines
• Collaborate closely with engineers across our product area to streamline our features and system capabilities
• Design, develop and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call and goalie rotatio