Backend Engineer II
Music Monetisation

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• Engineering

• Backend

Location

• London

Job type

Permanent

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.

Our global benefits

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

Learn about life at Spotify

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.

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 with a community of more than 500 million users.