The Role
The Backend Engineer will design solutions for Spotify's Commerce Platform, focusing on backend services for merchandising, order management, and payment processes while collaborating with various teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are seeking a Backend Engineer to join our team. The role offers an excellent opportunity to grow for an engineer early in the career, or a more experienced engineer to take on new challenges.
As part of Spotify’s Commerce Platform, we manage backend services and data sets that power end-to-end merchandising, order management, payment orchestration and purchase flows. You have the chance to create a significant impact by evolving our technology stack aimed at improving our capabilities and providing a resilient, high-performing commerce ecosystem.
What You'll Do
- Solution design and end-to-end implementation of capabilities in Spotify’s internal commerce platform.
- Work in a team that implements change to complex systems at high scale.
- Collaborate with talented peers and teams across Spotify to deliver value to our users.
- Gain exposure to backend, data and ML-based systems.
Who You Are
- Experience building and scaling Java or Python services on a large scale cloud platform, such as Google Cloud Platform, or equivalent.
- Exposure to scalable database technologies, such as Postgres.
- Exposure to data and data pipelines, being adept is a plus.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong bias for action.
- Strong writing and communication skills. Comfortable driving engineering deep dives and workshops, as well as stakeholder demos.
- Self-driven and enjoys being part of a team that works together and makes each other better through tight collaboration and feedback.
- Experience with e-commerce or financial engineering domains is a plus.
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in London.
- 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.
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.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
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.
Top Skills
Data Pipelines
Google Cloud Platform
Java
Postgres
Python
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What We Do
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