
Backend Engineer – Platform Developer Experience
Spotify
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $132,949 - $189,927 per year
About the role
- Build and evolve backend services that power AI Fleet Management across Spotify and Portal’s external customers
- Design scalable distributed systems that support safe, observable, and repeatable fleet-wide changes
- Integrate AI-native capabilities into backend workflows using modern LLM tooling and agent-based automation
- Develop services across a polyglot backend stack including Java, Python, and Node.js
- Take ownership of well-scoped services end-to-end, including participating in operational support and on-call rotation
- Collaborate with product, design, and go-to-market partners to shape practical, customer-facing platform capabilities
- Contribute to strong engineering fundamentals including automated testing, observability, reliability, and continuous delivery
- Help evolve internal and external APIs, SDKs, and platform primitives used daily by other engineers
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience building backend services and distributed systems
- strong experience in Java and Python and are comfortable working in a polyglot environment that includes Node.js
- experience designing and operating production systems with reliability and scalability in mind
- comfortable taking ownership of services from implementation through production support
- care about developer experience and how APIs, tooling, and workflows are consumed
- practice continuous delivery, automated testing, and clean engineering habits
- communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across engineering and cross-functional teams
Benefits
- health insurance
- six-month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- paid flexible holidays
- paid sick leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaPythonNode.jsbackend servicesdistributed systemsautomated testingobservabilityreliabilitycontinuous deliveryAPI design
Soft Skills
ownershipcollaborationcommunicationdeveloper experiencecross-functional teamwork