# Senior Backend Engineer **Company**: Spotify **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/6b0128ab-edeb-494b-b747-25cb35af4b6a?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e2bbd1be-625 ## Description Spotify's Audiobooks Mission is transforming how creators and listeners experience long-form storytelling. We're building the foundation that enables audiobook content to flow seamlessly from publishers to listeners , including the systems that power ingestion, processing, and delivery across a rapidly growing global catalog. We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a small, high-impact team within the Audiobooks Pipeline area. This team is responsible for building and scaling systems that ingest, process, and transform audiobook and eBook content, metadata, and royalties , ensuring the right content reaches listeners efficiently and with the highest quality. While this role is full stack in scope, the majority of work will lean toward backend and data-focused development. We're looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity, loves to learn, and is eager to stretch beyond their comfort zone to solve challenging problems across the stack. ## Responsibilities - Design and build systems that power audiobook ingestion, transformation, and delivery , ensuring performance, accuracy, and scalability across millions of titles. - Contribute across the stack, from backend services and APIs to lightweight interfaces or operational tools, depending on the team's evolving needs. - Collaborate with engineers, PMs, and designers to translate sophisticated workflows into elegant, maintainable, and reliable systems. - Be responsible for your impact , take operational responsibility for the services you build and drive continuous improvement in reliability and performance. - Adapt and T-shape: Step into areas beyond your comfort zone (e.g., data pipelines, internal tooling, or deployment infrastructure) as the mission evolves. - Author and review RFCs, sharing your insights and shaping technical decisions that affect the broader Audiobooks ecosystem. - Embrace the Audiobooks Mission expectations: operate with 'short toes,' take ownership beyond team boundaries, and value pragmatic, reversible decisions. - Mentor and collaborate with peers, sharing knowledge and contributing to an inclusive, psychologically safe engineering culture. ## Requirements - 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally across backend systems and distributed architectures. - Highly proficient in Spotify's backend tech stack (Java/gRPC/GCP). - Some data experience and a willingness to work across the stack when needed , not because you have to, but because you're curious. - Care about clean, maintainable, and testable code and take ownership of quality and operational excellence. - Thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, enjoy context-switching, and value quick, pragmatic decision-making. - Demonstrate data proficiency, curiosity about the business domain, and a desire to understand the broader audiobook ecosystem. - Collaborative, humble, and growth-minded , adopting Spotify's playful culture and Audiobooks Mission ethos of experimentation, ownership, and continuous learning. ## Where You'll Be - 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. ## Skills ### Required - Java - gRPC - GCP - backend systems - distributed architectures - data pipelines - internal tooling - deployment infrastructure --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/6b0128ab-edeb-494b-b747-25cb35af4b6a?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)