Backend Engineer - Music

The Music Mission team owns Spotify’s end to end proposition for music creators and the experiences they create for fans. The team is dedicated to building tools and services to enable creation, promotion, expression, and monetization at scale.

You’ll join the PACT Squad, a team focused on policy, accountability, and trust within Spotify’s Music Mission. We build products that help creators securely launch their music, protect their presence on the platform, and better understand emerging challenges like AI-generated content. Working at the intersection of creators, industry partners, and technology, we aim to build a safer and more transparent ecosystem for music.

What You'll Do:
• Build and ship backend services that power creator-facing and industry-facing products

• Collaborate with product, design, insights, and engineering partners to understand user needs and turn them into scalable solutions

• Design, develop, and operate backend systems with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability

• Contribute to infrastructure, tooling, and deployment pipelines that support efficient development and delivery

• Take ownership of services, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and participating in on-call rotations

• Work closely with a cross-functional team to continuously improve how we build and deliver products

• Experiment and iterate using data and A/B testing to improve user experiences

• Use modern development tools, including AI-assisted coding tools, to enhance productivity and code quality

Who You Are:
• You have experience building and maintaining backend services in a production environment

• You are comfortable working with Java and frameworks such as Spring Boot

• You understand how to design systems that are scalable, reliable, and easy to maintain

• You care about writing clean, testable code and follow practices like continuous integration and automated testing

• You have experience working with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform

• You are familiar with containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes

• You are comfortable working with monitoring and observability tools

• You stay current with evolving technologies, including AI-assisted development tools, and use them thoughtfully in your workflow

• You enjoy working collaboratively in a team and contributing to an inclusive and supportive environment

Where You'll Be:
• This role is based in New York

• 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.

The United States base range for this position is $125,562- $179,374 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.