Senior Backend Engineer - Subscriptions

The Subscriptions Mission builds and scales the products, platforms, and business models that convert free listeners into lifelong Premium subscribers. We focus on driving acquisition, optimizing conversion, improving retention, and delivering seamless commerce experiences that fuel Spotify’s growth and bring fans closer to the creators they love.

At Spotify, our Subscriptions data powers the decision engines and experiences behind our 700M+ Monthly Active Users and 290M+ Premium subscribers. You’ll join a collaborative, cross-functional team focused on building the systems that power merchandising, personalization, and seamless subscription experiences at global scale. Together, we shape how users discover value and choose to stay with Spotify.

Design, build, and run scalable Java services that power our merchandising platform and support conversion and upsell journeys

Work closely with your squad to design backend systems, APIs, and data models on Google Cloud Platform

Partner with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to solve meaningful technical challenges

Improve and scale data pipelines that support experimentation, heuristics, and machine learning applications

Contribute to architecture decisions that improve reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability

Support production systems end-to-end, ensuring services are observable, reliable, and continuously improving

Share knowledge through code reviews and collaboration, helping strengthen the team’s technical practices

You have 5+ years of experience building backend systems using Java

You have strong computer science fundamentals and experience working with distributed systems at scale

You have experience designing and operating cloud-native services (e.g., GCP or AWS)

You are comfortable designing APIs and working with partners to translate needs into scalable solutions

You have experience running high-volume services in production and understand reliability, observability, and performance

You collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and take ownership of complex work from idea to delivery

You seek feedback, learn continuously, and look for ways to improve systems and how teams work together

You have experience with technologies such as gRPC, BigQuery, Bigtable, CMS integrations, or ML-driven systems

• This role is based in London, England or Stockholm, Sweden
• 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.