Backend Engineer, Music

Spotify Spotify · Consumer · New York, NY · Music

Backend Engineer for Spotify's Music Mission, focusing on the end-to-end campaign booking experience for creators. The role involves owning the full lifecycle of campaign management tools, ensuring a seamless, reliable, and scalable flow. While the core is backend engineering, there's a stated interest in leveraging AI to improve systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. build the tools and services that enable creators to express themselves, promote their work, and connect with fans
  2. building the entire end-to-end campaign booking experience, from intuitive frontend interfaces to the backend services that power them
  3. own the full lifecycle of campaign management tools, ensuring that the flow—from the first click to the final execution—is seamless, reliable, and scalable

Skills

Required

  • developing backend systems using Java
  • design APIs
  • work with service-based architectures
  • write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • performance, scalability, and system reliability
  • working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
  • curious, proactive, and motivated to learn and grow
  • contributing to production systems

Nice to have

  • leverage AI to improve our systems, and eager to find practical ways to apply it

What the JD emphasized

  • AI to improve our systems