Backend Engineer II - Music Monetisation

What You'll Do

• Evolve and scale Spotify's backend systems for live event ingestion and distribution.
• Ensure that our customers’ experiences are the very best they can be. These customers include not only Spotify users who discover concerts through our platform, but also our internal teams who liaise with artists.
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by the team, including taking part in an on-call rotation.
• Work with squads across the organization to develop and scale the platform.
• Be hands on and deliver on complex backend tasks that bring the joy of Live music to Spotify users.

Who You Are

• You are experienced with Java and have an intermediate to advanced understanding of distributed, high-volume services, JVM concepts, and architecture patterns.
• You have experience designing, implementing, and scaling cloud-native software components on providers like AWS or GCP is highly desirable.
• You are deeply familiar with SQL-like languages and relational databases.
• You are experienced in the architecture and design (patterns, reliability, scalability, quality) of microservices and cloud infrastructure.
• You have a growth mentality, are curious, and are not afraid to be experimental. You share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you.
• You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code.
• You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Where You'll Be

• This role will ideally be located in the UK, Sweden, or potentially one of our other EMEA locations *excluding France for now due to on-call restrictions.