# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company**: Spotify
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Subscriptions Mission team at Spotify. This team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures engagement with people in innovative ways. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will participate in building and maintaining systems responsible for driving user conversion, retention, and upsells.

The team is working towards a more user-focused, contextual conversion, retention, and upsell experience that is less manually operated and more consistent across channels, using levers like machine learning and personalisation.

## Responsibilities

- Architect, develop, and operate Java services that serve users through the merchandising platform to enable cohesive and relevant conversion and upsell journeys.

- Collaborate with the 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 automation and new platform capabilities.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of working experience as a Backend Engineer working with Java.

- Strong computer science fundamentals and previous experience building complex backend services at scale.

- Experience in designing, implementing, and scaling cloud-native software components on providers such as GCP, AWS, etc.

- Experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document, and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements.

- Comfortable working collaboratively on cross-functional teams and independently driving complex delivery initiatives.

- Written distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and operate them in production.

## Nice-to-haves

- Experience modelling, building, and operating integrations with external CMS solutions or working with ML teams for recommendations and data pipelines.

## Location

- This role is based in London or Stockholm.

- Flexible work arrangements available.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- GCP
- BigQuery
- Bigtable
- gRPC
- Cloud-native software

### Nice to have
- Experience with external CMS solutions
- Machine learning

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