Hybrid Backend Engineer – Core Experience

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About the role

  • Backend Engineer building reliable backend services for Spotify's mobile app experience. Collaborating with engineers to design APIs and improve user-facing experiences on a global scale.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate backend services that are reliable, low-latency, and ready to scale globally.
  • Partner with engineers and product teams across Spotify to design APIs and data flows that power user-facing experiences.
  • Take ownership of your services end-to-end, including operations and on-call participation.
  • Evolve our architecture to support new features, performance improvements, and long-term technical health.
  • Use experimentation and data to drive decisions and improve feature quality.
  • Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and continuous improvement practices.
  • Learn, grow, and contribute to Spotify’s engineering culture through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and curiosity.

Requirements

  • You know how to build and maintain backend services, ideally using Java or a similar language.
  • You have an understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems concepts.
  • You care about reliability, testing, observability, and continuous delivery.
  • You are familiar with tools commonly used at scale, such as Git, BigQuery, Grafana, JUnit, and PagerDuty.
  • You are comfortable using AI tools to improve developer workflows and boost productivity.
  • You are curious, proactive, and eager to learn new approaches and technologies.
  • You enjoy collaborating with others and shaping both systems and ways of working.
  • You have experience exploring or applying GenAI to improve developer experience or engineering efficiency.
  • You are excited about building backend services that power user-facing experiences at massive scale.

Benefits

  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Backend Engineer – Core Experience

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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