Senior Backend Engineer - Subscriptions
About this role
The Subscriptions mission helps people discover the right Spotify experience for them and supports the entire journey from free to paid. Our teams build products and services that make it easier for listeners around the world to understand the value of Spotify Premium while enabling sustainable growth for the business.
The Markets & Subscriptions 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.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our cross-functional team of data scientists and mobile, web, and backend engineers to build the services that power Spotify's free-to-paid experiences.
\nWhat You'll Do- Collaborate with a cross-functional engineering team to build and evolve Spotify's subscription conversion experiences.
- Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs using Java, gRPC, and GCP.
- Partner with teams across the Subscriptions mission to support new products, plans, and global launches.
- Build resilient backend systems that support millions of users across web and mobile.
- Work closely with product managers and engineers to deliver technical solutions that solve meaningful customer and business problems.
- Lead technical initiatives while mentoring teammates and raising engineering quality across the team.
- Champion engineering best practices, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
- You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy solving complex technical problems with others.
- You have 5+ years of experience building backend systems at scale.
- You have experience with Java, gRPC, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- You know how to design APIs and backend services consumed by multiple client platforms.
- You care about writing maintainable, high-quality, production-ready software.
- You have experience working with internal stakeholders to build reusable platforms and services.
- Experience with subscription, conversion, commerce, or merchandising systems is a plus.
- This role is based in London, England 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.
Company at a glance
Deliver creativity to the world -- one note, one voice, one idea at a time.
At Spotify, we focus relentlessly on building the best and most valuable experience available anywhere, enhancing every moment by connecting the world to the art and the creatives who shape it.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience.
Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.
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