Senior Backend Engineer - Music

Requirements

• You have strong experience designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java or similar languages
• You are comfortable with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub)
• You have experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases and understand data modeling trade-offs
• You are accustomed to supporting production systems and apply learnings from prior incidents when building new features
• You own solutions end-to-end, from scoping through deployment and production monitoring

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that power Spotify Rights Center
• Partner closely with product, insights, design, and engineering peers to understand the needs of external rightsholders and internal partners
• Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable backend systems with strong operational ownership
• Help evolve the platform architecture as it expands to more licensors, territories, and content types, including shifts from batch processing toward event-driven patterns
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions aligned to business needs
• Contribute to modern engineering practices, including agile ways of working and healthy engineering standards
• Integrate with Spotify’s broader content and moderation ecosystem as needed
• Contribute to a healthy, collaborative team culture aligned to how we work together
• Collaborate on product ideation with specialists, researchers, product managers, and subject-matter experts
• Grow your skills through hands-on work, feedback, and learning opportunities (hack days, reading groups, internal courses)

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Bazel, GCP services (Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, BigQuery), and data pipeline tools (Scio, Scala, Flyte) is a plus
• Familiarity with rights management, content moderation, or 0-to-1 product work is a plus

Where You'll Be

• 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 (excluding France due to on-call restrictions).
• This team operates within the Central European and GMT time zone for collaboration.