Spotify

Senior Backend Engineer - Commerce Platform

Spotify London, England, United Kingdom

The Subscriptions R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.

The Phoenix squad owns the Orders and Fulfilment domains in the Spotify Commerce Platform, including multiple backend services and data sets that manage purchasing and provisioning flows for Premium and Audiobooks and other key areas. We are looking for a Senior Engineer to help build the next generation of our stack, including new services and data pipelines, unified checkout across commerce, and North Star domain model for current and future Spotify business models.

What You'll Do

  • Own solution design and implementation of new capabilities end-to-end in Order Management System and Fulfilment services.
  • Work on foundational entity data sets for new Commerce Platform Data Vision.
  • Work on impactful company bets across many verticals, including Premium and Audiobook expansion and experimental mountain bets.
  • Focus on operation excellence and building scalable, resilient, and efficient solutions.
  • Experiment, learn, hack, grow, and have some fun (see country-specific policies for company recommended amounts of fun per year).
  • This role has on-call rotation

Who You Are

  • Experience building and scaling Java services on Google Cloud Platform.
  • 5+ years of working experience in a similar role.
  • Interest in data and data pipelines (we use Scio).
  • Excellent problem-solving and fast decision-making skills with strong bias for action.
  • Strong writing and communication skills.
  • Comfortable driving engineering deep dives and workshops, as well as customer demos.
  • Bonus: Experience with e-commerce or financial engineering domains.

Where You'll Be

  • This role will be located in London UK, or Stockholm, Sweden

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Engineering
  • Industries

    Musicians

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