Senior Backend Engineer - Subscriptions

Senior Backend Engineer - Subscriptions

Spotify

London or Stockholm

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and run scalable Java services that power our merchandising platform and support conversion and upsell journeys;
• Work closely with your squad to design backend systems, APIs, and data models on Google Cloud Platform;
• Partner with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to solve meaningful technical challenges;
• Improve and scale data pipelines that support experimentation, heuristics, and machine learning applications;
• Contribute to architecture decisions that improve reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability;
• Support production systems end-to-end, ensuring services are observable, reliable, and continuously improving;
• Share knowledge through code reviews and collaboration, helping strengthen the team’s technical practices.

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years of experience building backend systems using Java;
• You have strong computer science fundamentals and experience working with distributed systems at scale;
• You have experience designing and operating cloud-native services (e.g., GCP or AWS);
• You are comfortable designing APIs and working with partners to translate needs into scalable solutions;
• You have experience running high-volume services in production and understand reliability, observability, and performance;
• You collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and take ownership of complex work from idea to delivery;
• You seek feedback, learn continuously, and look for ways to improve systems and how teams work together;
• You have experience with technologies such as gRPC, BigQuery, Bigtable, CMS integrations, or ML-driven systems.