Fullstack Engineer - Subscriptions
About this role
We build the platforms and tools that power Spotify's global subscription business, enabling new offers, pricing strategies, and commerce experiences that help our business move quickly while delivering exceptional experiences for listeners. Join the Monaco squad, where we create the internal products that enable Spotify teams to launch, configure, and manage Premium offers with confidence. From subscriptions and prepaid products to pricing updates and promotional campaigns, our tools support business-critical operations through intuitive experiences, trusted workflows, and reliable platform services. As a Fullstack Engineer, you'll develop end-to-end solutions spanning modern web applications, backend services, and data platforms. Working closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and business partners, you'll help create the tools that enable Spotify's global subscription business to innovate safely, efficiently, and at scale. Build end-to-end features across modern web applications, backend services, and data platforms that support Spotify's global subscription business. Create intuitive internal products that enable business teams to launch, configure, and manage Premium offers through secure, guided workflows. Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services that power subscriptions, prepaid products, pricing, promotions, and the offer lifecycle. Develop GraphQL and gRPC APIs that connect frontend applications with distributed platform services. Design efficient database schemas, implement data migrations, and optimize application performance using PostgreSQL. Build secure, reliable, and auditable systems that support business-critical financial operations and SOX-compliant approval workflows. Collaborate with engineers across the Subscriptions Mission to evolve shared platform capabilities, improve developer experience, and increase platform reliability. Write maintainable, well-tested code while contributing to technical design, architecture discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement. Participate in an on-call rotation to help maintain the reliability and availability of services powering Spotify Premium. You have experience building and delivering production software across both frontend and backend technologies. You have experience developing scalable backend services using modern Java, with Java 17+ experience being a plus. You have built modern web applications using TypeScript, React, and Next.js. You have experience designing or consuming GraphQL APIs and enjoy building schema-driven applications. You have worked with gRPC services and Protocol Buffers, or you're excited to deepen your expertise in distributed systems. You have hands-on experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database, including schema design, migrations, and query optimization. You care about writing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested software that delivers long-term value. You enjoy partnering with engineers, designers, product managers, and business stakeholders to solve complex problems and deliver meaningful outcomes. You have a passion for simplifying complex workflows and creating intuitive experiences for internal users. Experience with tools such as jOOQ, Flyway, Apollo GraphQL, DataLoader, Styled Components, Storybook, TanStack Query, Tailwind CSS, Material UI, or similar technologies will help you ramp up quickly. Experience building commerce platforms, subscription products, pricing systems, distributed systems, or large-scale platform modernization initiatives is beneficial. We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EMEA region as long as we have a work location. This team operates within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration.
What this role is, and what else it is called
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About hiring at Lifeatspotify
Lifeatspotify has 14 other live technology roles on its careers page, across Software Engineering, Data, AI & Machine Learning and IT Leadership & Management. Of those, 33% are advertised as fully remote and 67% as hybrid. Elsewhere in its adverts Lifeatspotify asks for SQL, Machine Learning, PyTorch, TensorFlow and C++. See all Lifeatspotify roles, salaries and stack.
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