Senior Backend Engineer - Subscriptions

Architect, develop and operate Java services that serve our users through the merchandising platform to enable cohesive and relevant conversion and upsell journeys.

Collaborate with our squad and key internal partners to determine how to design scalable backend systems, data models and APIs that run on Google Cloud Platform.

Be a technical leader, mentor and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile squad, in close collaboration with other squads and business stakeholders.

Collaborate with other squads, engineering managers and product managers to identify and solve challenging problems, to successfully scale our automation and new platform capabilities.

You have 5+ years of working experience as a Backend Engineer working with Java. Additional tools and technologies such as gRPC, GCP, BigQuery and Bigtable are a plus.

You have strong computer science fundamentals and previous experience building complex backend services at scale.

You have experience in designing, implementing, and scaling cloud-native software components on providers such as GCP, AWS, etc.

You have experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements.

You are comfortable working collaboratively on cross-functional teams and independently driving complex delivery initiatives.

You have written distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and operate them in production.

You have a growth mindset and are passionate about your work, striving towards the team’s goals and, ultimately, the Spotify Mission.

Nice-to-haves: Experience modelling, building and operating integrations with external CMS solutions or working with ML teams for recommendations and data pipelines.