Description
Senior Engineer - User Platform
Team: Platform
Location: New York, NY
Commitment: Permanent
Workplace Type: remote
User Platform (UP) is a studio in the SAFE Alliance as part of Spotify's Platform Mission. The studio owns capabilities and infrastructure for Customer Identity and Access Management at Spotify.
The studio was established with a central mission: to connect users with Spotify and Spotify with its users. Its purpose is to provide a secure platform that allows users to establish their identity and manage their account data across various interfaces. At the same time, it empowers teams across Spotify to reliably tailor the overall user experience to meet individual needs.
User Platform is responsible for many of the core services needed for Spotify to function and provide the 700M+ users across the world access to the audio experience they desire.
Lockness is the team that powers business authorization at Spotify. We own how access is defined and scaled across every vertical in the company. As a full-stack team, we build foundational IAM capabilities that keep Spotify secure while enabling teams to move fast. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll architect and scale the next generation of Business IAM, expanding our authorization platform in both depth and reach.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, and deploy backend services and APIs that power Spotify's creator authorization systems.
- Collaborate with different cross-disciplined teams on complex problems. This team works with almost all verticals at Spotify (Music, Audiobooks, Podcasts, etc.)
- Maintaining business-critical Spotify authorization systems, ensuring high availability, stability, and adherence to SLAs.
- Embrace and promote sound engineering practices and contribute to a culture of high-quality, scalable, and reliable systems.
- Actively contribute to our learning culture by sharing knowledge and mentoring other engineers.
- Leverage AI to improve our systems, automate tasks, and drive business impact. We believe in "AI Fluency" and expect our engineers to be knowledgeable and willing to learn and apply AI to their work
Who You Are
- You’re a problem solver who loves seeing things through from concept to production and you’re eager to learn whatever skills are needed along the way.
- You are a Fullstack Developer who understands the complexities of Server side vs Client side development and is interested in crossing the lines between Backend, Data and Front End.
- You have 5+ years of experience with Java, SQL and ideally familiar with React, Typescript, Next.js
- You’re a collaborative teammate who values inclusion and open communication.
- You have an understanding of the authorization domain and are eager to learn.
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best!
- For this role, you can be within the EST region as long as we have a work location. This team operates within the EST time zone for collaboration.
The United States base range for this position is $164,448-234,926 plus equity. 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. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
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