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.
What You'll Do
Design, build, and operate backend services that are reliable, low-latency, and ready to scale globally. Partner with engineers and product teams across Spotify to design APIs and data flows that power user-facing experiences. Take ownership of your services end-to-end, including operations and on-call participation. Evolve our architecture to support new features, performance improvements, and long-term technical health. Use experimentation and data to drive decisions and improve feature quality. Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and continuous improvement practices. Learn, grow, and contribute to Spotify's engineering culture through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and curiosity.
Who You Are
You know how to build and maintain backend services, ideally using Java or a similar language. You have an understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems concepts. You care about reliability, testing, observability, and continuous delivery. You are familiar with tools commonly used at scale, such as Git, BigQuery, Grafana, JUnit, and PagerDuty. You are comfortable using AI tools to improve developer workflows and boost productivity. You are curious, proactive, and eager to learn new approaches and technologies. You enjoy collaborating with others and shaping both systems and ways of working. You have experience exploring or applying GenAI to improve developer experience or engineering efficiency. You are excited about building backend services that power user-facing experiences at massive scale
Where You'll Be
This role is based in London, UK, or Stockholm, Sweden.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.
