Senior Backend Engineer - Subscriptions

Requirements

• 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.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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.

Perks and Benefits

• 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.