# 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

The Subscriptions mission at Spotify aims to help users discover the right Spotify experience and supports their journey from free to paid subscriptions.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our cross-functional team of data scientists and mobile, web, and backend engineers. The successful candidate will build services that power Spotify's free-to-paid experiences.

### Responsibilities

- Collaborate with a cross-functional engineering team to build and evolve Spotify's subscription conversion experiences.

- Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs using Java, gRPC, and GCP.

- Partner with teams across the Subscriptions mission to support new products, plans, and global launches.

- Build resilient backend systems that support millions of users across web and mobile.

- Work closely with product managers and engineers to deliver technical solutions that solve meaningful customer and business problems.

- Lead technical initiatives while mentoring teammates and raising engineering quality across the team.

- Champion engineering best practices, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

### Requirements

- Thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy solving complex technical problems with others.

- Have 5+ years of experience building backend systems at scale.

- Experience with Java, gRPC, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

- Know how to design APIs and backend services consumed by multiple client platforms.

- Care about writing maintainable, high-quality, production-ready software.

- Experience working with internal stakeholders to build reusable platforms and services.

- Experience with subscription, conversion, commerce, or merchandising systems is a plus.

### Location

- This role is based in London, England or Stockholm, Sweden, with flexibility to work from home.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- gRPC
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- backend systems
- API design

### Nice to have
- subscription systems
- conversion systems
- commerce systems
- merchandising systems

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