Senior Backend Engineer - Subscriptions
About this role
This 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. As a Senior Backend Engineer you will participate in building and maintaining the systems responsible for driving user conversion, retention and upsells together with other R&D teams, Marketing and Growth. The team is uniquely positioned to play a key role in a new effort to strengthen our platform capabilities in this area to support the rapidly growing business needs of the ever-changing product portfolio. We are moving towards a more user focused, contextual conversion, retention and upsell experience that is less manually operated, and more consistent across channels, using levers like machine learning and personalisation. We want to solve this through a platformised approach utilising new systems for decision-making on what we want users to see combined with a content management solution that can handle all the necessary complexities. 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. This role is based in London or Stockholm. 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.
What this role is, and what else it is called
Employers in London advertise this kind of work as Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Web Developer and Full Stack Developer too, so it is worth searching more than one wording. It is a senior Software Engineering role in London, advertised as hybrid, splitting time between home and the office.
About hiring at Lifeatspotify
Lifeatspotify has 15 other live technology roles on its careers page, across Software Engineering, Data, AI & Machine Learning and IT Leadership & Management. Of those, 31% are advertised as fully remote and 69% as hybrid. Elsewhere in its adverts Lifeatspotify asks for SQL, PyTorch, TypeScript, React and TensorFlow. See all Lifeatspotify roles, salaries and stack.
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