Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Spotify

London or Stockholm

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that power Spotify Rights Center
• Partner closely with product, insights, design, and engineering peers to understand the needs of external rightsholders and internal partners
• Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable backend systems with strong operational ownership
• Help evolve the platform architecture as it expands to more licensors, territories, and content types, including shifts from batch processing toward event-driven patterns
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions aligned to business needs
• Contribute to modern engineering practices, including agile ways of working and healthy engineering standards
• Integrate with Spotify’s broader content and moderation ecosystem as needed
• Contribute to a healthy, collaborative team culture aligned to how we work together
• Collaborate on product ideation with specialists, researchers, product managers, and subject-matter experts
• Grow your skills through hands-on work, feedback, and learning opportunities (hack days, reading groups, internal courses)

Who You Are

• You have strong experience designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java or similar languages
• You are comfortable with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub)
• You have experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases and understand data modeling trade-offs
• You are accustomed to supporting production systems and apply learnings from prior incidents when building new features
• You own solutions end-to-end, from scoping through deployment and production monitoring
• You ensure quality through modern testing, debugging, and automation techniques
• You have a solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms
• You proactively identify tech debt and work with your team to get it prioritized
• You care about software architecture across the full stack and the APIs that connect systems together
• You’re excited to learn new problem spaces and domains, and you prioritize team success
• Experience with Bazel, GCP services (Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, BigQuery), and data pipeline tools (Scio, Scala, Flyte) is a plus
• Familiarity with rights management, content moderation, or 0-to-1 product work is a plus