Spotify

Backend Engineer – Platform Developer Experience

Spotify

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New YorkUnited 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