Senior Backend Engineer

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with key internal partners to determine how to scalably design backend systems and APIs.
• Architect, develop, and operate Java services deployed to millions of users.
• Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems, creating awesome music sessions for users worldwide.
• Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company.

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years of working experience as a Backend Engineer working with Java. Experience with gRPC, GCP, BigQuery, Bigtable is a plus. Although not required for your day-to-day work, experience with PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Typescript and React is also a plus.
• You have experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document, and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations.
• You have written distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production.
• You have an interest in the podcast industry and building products to solve podcasters’ biggest challenges.
• You love working in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly.
• You believe data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making.
• You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within any timezone from Eastern (UTC -5:00) to Pacific (UTC -8:00)  as long as we have a work location.