Spotify is hiring a
Backend Engineer II

Summary

Spotify is seeking a Backend Engineer to join the Awareness & Acquisition team. The role involves building in-app experiences that encourage users to talk about Spotify, collaborating with various teams, designing, implementing, and scaling cloud-native software components, and participating in the whole lifecycle for backend services.

Requirements

• You have an intermediate to advanced understanding of object-oriented programming concepts and architecture patterns
• You have proven experience designing, implementing, and scaling cloud-native software components. Familiarity with providers like AWS or GCP is a plus
• You enjoy working collaboratively on a full-stack team, using agile processes to deliver a project in incremental phases
• You solve problems methodically and can investigate issues in complex systems
• You care about quality, delivering high-quality products and supporting others to maintain a high standard
• You enjoy learning as well as teaching others. You are passionate about your work, pursuing the goals of the team and, ultimately, the Spotify mission - 'giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to build end-to-end features for millions of users
• Architect, develop, and operate Java services following good design and development practices
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle for backend services - from inception and design, through deployment, operation and optimization
• Participate in evolving the team’s technical strategy and product roadmap
• Drive forward technical initiatives, starting within your team and scaling them across Spotify
• Work on what you want during regular hack days and annual hack weeks

Benefits

The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave