Backend Engineer II

Join Spotify as a Backend Engineer II

Spotify is seeking a talented Backend Engineer to join the Moonlight team within the Awareness & Acquisition studio. Our mission is to create in-app experiences that give strategic audiences more reasons to talk about Spotify with their friends, family, and other fans. We strive to fulfill this mission by building 0-to-1 features according to three strategic pillars: audio identity, time-sensitive moments, and fandom.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to build end-to-end features for millions of users.
• Architect, develop, and operate Java services following good design and development practices.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle for backend services - from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and optimization.
• Participate in evolving the team’s technical strategy and product roadmap.
• Drive forward technical initiatives, starting within your team and scaling them across Spotify.
• Work on what you want during regular hack days and annual hack weeks.

Who You Are

• You have an intermediate to advanced understanding of object-oriented programming concepts and architecture patterns.
• You have proven experience designing, implementing, and scaling cloud-native software components. Familiarity with providers like AWS or GCP is a plus.
• 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.
• You care about quality, delivering high-quality products and supporting others to maintain a high standard.
• You enjoy learning as well as teaching others. You are passionate about your work, pursuing 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 inspired by it."

Where You'll Be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be anywhere in the North America region in which we have a work location.
• Prefer to work in an office environment? Prefer to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences.
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.

Compensation and Benefits

The United States base range for this position is $122,716- $175,308 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Join us in creating delightful moments for our users and be part of a team that is passionate about music and technology.