Backend Engineer - Subscriptions
London
Engineering – Subscriptions R&D /
Permanent /
Hybrid
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.
We are a team working on defining the premium and free value propositions. We own a system to define the product features that all our free, mid-tier and premium products have. We are the central source of truth for all existing and new premium products and own datasets and APls that teams around us can use. We are working on new systems to control pricing and discount availability for our premium products. Besides this we also own a system for capping features (e.g. audiobook consumption, on-demand playback, and more).
We are a new team and we have a good mix of investigation and implementation work and a lot of opportunities to lead initiatives of all sorts of sizes and complexity. We are very fast-paced and have a culture of helping teams that we work with with what they need.
What You'll Do
- Work with an outstanding team of backend engineers on our product definition system and making it drive more features across all of our Spotify systems
- Work with squads across the Subscriptions mission on centralising the premium product portfolio
- Building out a new system to define product availability, pricing and discounts across Spotify markets
- Ensure timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Collaborate with key internal partners and stakeholders to determine how to scalably design backend systems and APls
Who You Are
- You love collaborating with others
- You have 2+ years of proven experience working as a backend engineer and a willingness to grow
- You have a foundational understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms, with a willingness to learn and grow in these areas.
- You have experience working directly with internal customers to understand, document and develop APls and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code
Where You'll Be
- You’ll be based in our Stockholm or London office.
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
- Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located in these time zones.
- Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences.
- Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
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.
