Backend
Spotify is looking for a Backend Engineer to join Impala - our GenAI team in Financial Engineering. We are focused on building the AI platform for Finance. Using genAI and machine learning, we aim to automate and enhance stakeholders’ working methods. Impala is a highly collaborative team of engineers and data scientists from multiple disciplines who are passionate about new challenges, product innovation, and building sustainable solutions. Our expertise ranges from Backend to traditional Machine Learning to LLMs. If you want to be a BE leader on a team driving pioneering uses of AI in Finance, apply today!
Locations
London
Stockholm
Job type
Permanent
We are part of the Financial Engineering team. Our mission is to accelerate Spotify’s growth and performance with a trusted financial platform that provides valuable data and insights for our partners. We’re a team of engineers, data scientists, and product managers in New York, Stockholm, and London.

What You’ll Do

• Work with Machine Learning experts to design, build, valuate, ship, and refine Finance’s genAI platform by hands-on backend development
• Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to determine how to design backend systems and APIs to meet their needs
• Author and collaborate on technical RFCs to document approaches
• Collaborate with a cross-functional agile team spanning design, data science, product management, engineering, and finance to build new technologies and features
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including joining an on-call rotation

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document, and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations
• 3+ years of experience in building and operating backend services with Python and/or Java
• Experience working with cloud-based environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Ability to solve problems methodically and can investigate issues in complex systems with a positive and proactive attitude
• Good understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience building solutions for Finance teams
• Quality focused, and you know what it means to ship high-quality code

Where You’ll Be

• This role is based in London or Stockholm
• 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. We ask that you come in 3 times per week

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

• Work with Machine Learning experts to design, build, valuate, ship, and refine Finance’s genAI platform by hands-on backend development
• Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to determine how to design backend systems and APIs to meet their needs
• Author and collaborate on technical RFCs to document approaches
• Collaborate with a cross-functional agile team spanning design, data science, product management, engineering, and finance to build new technologies and features
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including joining an on-call rotatio