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Senior Backend Engineer – Audiobooks
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
53 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – Audiobooks
Spotify
• Design and build systems that power audiobook ingestion, transformation, and delivery — ensuring performance, accuracy, and scalability across millions of titles. • Contribute across the stack, from backend services and APIs to lightweight interfaces or operational tools, depending on the team’s evolving needs. • Collaborate with engineers, PMs, and designers to translate sophisticated workflows into elegant, maintainable, and reliable systems. • Be responsible for your impact — take operational responsibility for the services you build and drive continuous improvement in reliability and performance. • Adapt and T-shape: Step into areas beyond your comfort zone (e.g., data pipelines, internal tooling, or deployment infrastructure) as the mission evolves. • Author and review RFCs, sharing your insights and shaping technical decisions that affect the broader Audiobooks ecosystem. • Embrace the Audiobooks Mission expectations: operate with “short toes,” take ownership beyond team boundaries, and value pragmatic, reversible decisions. • Mentor and collaborate with peers, sharing knowledge and contributing to an inclusive, psychologically safe engineering culture.
Job Requirements
- You have 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally across backend systems and distributed architectures.
- You’re highly proficient in Spotify's backend tech stack (Java/gRPC/GCP).
- You have some data experience and a willingness to work across the stack when needed — not because you have to, but because you’re curious.
- You care about clean, maintainable, and testable code and take ownership of quality and operational excellence.
- You thrive in ambiguous, fast paced environments, enjoy context-switching, and value quick, pragmatic decision-making.
- You demonstrate data proficiency, curiosity about the business domain, and a desire to understand the broader audiobook ecosystem.
- You’re collaborative, humble, and growth-minded — adopting Spotify’s playful culture and Audiobooks Mission ethos of experimentation, ownership, and continuous learning.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
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