Backend Engineer- Release

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience building backend systems in a production environment
• Experienced with Java and comfortable working in backend service architectures
• Understand distributed systems fundamentals and how to design reliable services
• Worked with or interested in continuous integration and delivery practices
• Familiar with system design principles and building scalable backend systems
• Collaborate effectively and value open feedback, learning, and shared ownership
• Comfortable working in agile teams and contributing to continuous improvement
• Interested in infrastructure, platform engineering, and developer tooling

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and maintain backend services and tooling that power Spotify’s release coordination workflows
• Work on systems that manage release trains, rollout orchestration, and deployment state across services
• Collaborate with Platform, Infrastructure, and SRE teams to ensure safe and predictable releases
• Contribute to improving developer experience through scalable and reliable internal tooling
• Participate in on-call rotations to support release tooling in production
• Pair with experienced engineers to grow your technical skills and take on increasing ownership
• Learn and contribute to Spotify’s release processes by working closely with Release Managers

Nice to Haves

• Experience with data pipelines or Scala (a plus, not required)

Where You'll Be

• 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.