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Backend Engineer I - Markets & Subscriptions

AT Spotify
Spotify

Backend Engineer I - Markets & Subscriptions

London, United Kingdom

The Subscriptions R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Within this team, the Lingo squad builds localized experiences that accelerate our Premium subscriber growth in emerging markets. In the last few years we've experimented with celebrating cultural moments (Diwali, Ramadan) and are now focusing on building premium fandom experiences around K-Pop and I-Pop, and scaling them globally.

What You'll Do

  • You will collaborate with a team of engineers, product, designers and data scientists to build end-to-end client facing experiences used by millions of users
  • You will architect, develop, and operate backend systems that can scale globally, following good design and development practices
  • You will take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including joining an on-call rotation

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Who You Are

  • You have experience of building and operating backend services with Java frameworks
  • You're passionate about your work, striving towards the goals of the team and, ultimately, the Spotify mission - “giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be passionate about it"
  • You enjoy working collaboratively on a full-stack team, using agile processes to deliver a project in incremental phases
  • You solve problems methodically and can investigate issues in complex systems with a positive and proactive attitude
  • You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code
  • You enjoy learning as well as teaching others. Our engineers are T-shaped, which means being capable of using the right technology as a tool when needed.
  • You are able to reason about trade offs of different databases and preferably have hands on experience with SQL and No SQL ones

Where You'll Be

  • Onsite in Stockholm, Sweden or London, UK

Our global benefits

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

Learn about life at Spotify

You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what's playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It's in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 500 million users.

Client-provided location(s): London, UK; Stockholm, Sweden
Job ID: Spotify-0bd547ed-2e4f-48fd-b16e-b2c8b7b0f897
Employment Type: Other