Senior Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable backend services that power authorization, permissions, and team management across Spotify.
• Take ownership of critical systems that enable creators, teams, agents, licensors, and other partners to securely access and manage the right content and capabilities.
• Evolve our backend architecture to support continued growth in users, use cases, and Spotify products while maintaining high standards for reliability, performance, and security.
• Improve the systems and workflows that enable creators to gain access to their content, profiles, and teams.
• Make thoughtful technical decisions and trade-offs, balancing long-term architecture with solutions that meet current product and business needs.
• Partner with engineers and cross-functional collaborators across Spotify to understand authorization needs and build reusable platform capabilities.
• Contribute to frontend experiences and data-related work when useful, while bringing deep expertise and leadership to backend engineering.
• Raise engineering quality through strong technical judgment, design discussions, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing across the team

Who you are

You have deep experience designing, building, and operating backend services, with strong knowledge of Java or comparable backend technologies. You have experience owning distributed, high-scale, or business-critical systems where reliability, performance, and security matter. You have experience working with relational databases at scale, including performance optimization and database tuning.