A leading technology company that created Backstage, an open source platform for building developer portals.

Spotify is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate for Backstage, their innovative open-source platform for building developer portals. Originally created at Spotify and now adopted by thousands of companies including Fortune 100 organizations, Backstage helps restore order to microservices and infrastructure while enabling rapid, high-quality code deployment.

The role combines technical expertise with advocacy, requiring someone who can bridge the gap between product development and community engagement. You'll be part of the Backstage Product Area, working to fulfill their mission of unleashing developer creativity and innovation while creating delightful experiences.

As a Senior Developer Advocate, you'll create technical content, build relationships with the community, support sales efforts, and represent Backstage at various events. You'll work directly with customers and partners, gathering feedback and supporting their Backstage journey. This position offers the opportunity to influence the future of developer experience platforms while working with cutting-edge technology.

The ideal candidate brings a strong technical background in software engineering or DevOps, with expertise in modern web development technologies and cloud platforms. You'll need excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with diverse audiences, from developers to executive stakeholders. This role offers the chance to work at the intersection of technology, community building, and product development in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Working from either London or Stockholm, you'll be part of a distributed team that's reshaping how organizations manage their developer experience. This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about developer tools and platforms who wants to make a significant impact in the developer experience space.

Senior Developer Advocate position at Spotify, focusing on Backstage platform advocacy, technical content creation, and community engagement.

Senior Developer Advocate - Backstage

Global music and audio streaming platform transforming the digital music industry.

Spotify is seeking a Backend Engineer to join their Subscriptions R&D team within the Commerce Platform. This role focuses on developing core capabilities managing multiple backend services and data sets that power Invoicing, Receipts, Payment Orchestration, and purchase flows end-to-end. The position offers an excellent opportunity for both early-career engineers and experienced professionals looking for new challenges.

The role involves working with complex systems at high scale, implementing changes that impact Spotify's commerce ecosystem. You'll be part of a team responsible for developing services and data pipelines aimed at improving capabilities and providing a resilient, high-performing commerce platform. The position requires expertise in Python or Java, familiarity with cloud platforms, and database technologies.

Working in a collaborative environment, you'll interact with teams across Spotify, contributing to the platform's evolution while gaining exposure to backend, data, and ML-based systems. The role demands strong problem-solving abilities, excellent communication skills, and a dedication to teamwork. Experience in e-commerce or financial engineering domains is valuable but not mandatory.

Based in either London or Stockholm, you'll be part of Spotify's innovative engineering culture, working on solutions that impact millions of users worldwide. This position offers the perfect blend of technical challenges and professional growth opportunities, allowing you to contribute to one of the world's leading music and audio streaming platforms while developing your expertise in complex backend systems and commerce technologies.

Backend Engineer position at Spotify focusing on subscriptions and commerce platform development, offering hybrid work in London or Stockholm.

Backend Engineer - Subscriptions

World's most popular audio streaming subscription service, revolutionizing music listening since 2008.

Spotify, the world's leading audio streaming platform, is seeking a Partner Engineer I for their Car Experience team in Stockholm. This role is crucial in bridging the gap between Spotify's automotive partners and internal teams, focusing on the seamless integration of Spotify into vehicles worldwide.

The position offers an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of automotive technology and music streaming, where you'll be responsible for ensuring millions of users have an exceptional experience using Spotify in their cars. You'll serve as the technical expert for partner integrations, specifically focusing on Android Automotive app integration with partners' systems and APIs.

As a Partner Engineer, you'll lead partner-specific projects, manage technical relationships, and drive improvement initiatives. Your role will involve complex problem-solving, from diagnosing partner-reported issues to translating partner requirements into actionable engineering tasks. You'll work closely with multiple teams, including Tech, Product, and Automotive, requiring excellent communication skills and technical expertise.

The ideal candidate should have a strong foundation in software development, particularly with languages like Java, JavaScript, or PHP, and a solid understanding of distributed systems and APIs. You'll need to be adaptable, comfortable with flexible working hours for international collaboration, and possess a valid driver's license for occasional partner visits.

Join Spotify's inclusive workplace culture where diversity is celebrated and innovation is constant. You'll be part of a company that has transformed the music industry and continues to revolutionize how the world listens to audio content. This role offers the unique opportunity to impact millions of users' daily listening experiences while working with cutting-edge automotive technology.

Partner Engineer role at Spotify focusing on automotive integrations, requiring software development experience and strong communication skills.

Partner Engineer I, Car Experience

Spotify is a leading global music streaming platform transforming the digital music industry.

Spotify is seeking a motivated C++ Software Engineer to join their XData, Experience Mission team. The role focuses on developing and maintaining software systems that integrate with Spotify's playback ecosystem and generate consumption datasets. The position offers a collaborative environment where team members work closely with data scientists and data product managers. The ideal candidate will be involved in designing, developing, and maintaining C++ solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and performing data analysis. The role requires strong C++ programming skills, curiosity about data collection and mobile development architecture, and the ability to work in a distributed team setting. The position provides an opportunity to work on large-scale systems and contribute to technical excellence through quality improvements and performance optimization. The team values collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation in solving complex technical challenges.

C++ Software Engineer position at Spotify focusing on playback ecosystem and data systems development, offering hybrid work in London or Stockholm.

C++ Engineer

A global music and audio streaming platform providing digital music, podcast and video services.

Join Spotify's Observability and Reliability Infrastructure team as a Backend Engineer II, where you'll be instrumental in building and maintaining their large-scale, distributed systems. This role focuses on providing coherent observability and reliability platforms for Spotify's microservice infrastructure, enabling teams to confidently operate their services.

As a Backend Engineer II, you'll work in an environment that values intellectual curiosity and problem-solving, with the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. You'll be responsible for architecting, developing, and operating Java services, while also being a technical leader within Spotify's backend developer community.

The position offers exciting challenges in scaling and optimizing systems through automation, working with modern technologies like Kubernetes, Go, and various cloud services. You'll be part of a team that values sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems, contributing to Spotify's mission of delivering media worldwide.

Located in Toronto, this hybrid role provides an opportunity to work with a global team while maintaining work-life balance. You'll participate in regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks, allowing you to explore innovative solutions and contribute to Spotify's technical evolution.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise in distributed systems, Java development, and cloud services with excellent problem-solving and communication skills. If you're passionate about building reliable, scalable systems and want to impact how millions of users experience music and audio content, this role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of Spotify's infrastructure.

Backend Engineer II position at Spotify focusing on building and maintaining observability and reliability infrastructure for large-scale distributed systems.

Backend Engineer II - Platform

Spotify is a leading music and audio streaming platform.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Data Protection team and be a key player in ensuring that data at Spotify is appropriately protected. You will contribute to building a scalable data protection platform that ensures data across Spotify is appropriately protected, managed, and deleted when no longer needed. This is a highly impactful role where you'll develop systems that empower engineers across the company to efficiently deliver secure, reliable, and compliant solutions.

You'll design, build, and optimise backend services and data pipelines that support data retention, access, and deletion requirements, ensuring Spotify meets evolving privacy and regulatory standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle challenging problems and implement solutions that scale to meet the needs of the entire organisation.

What You'll Do:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and data pipelines that enable the safe use of data across the company.
- Collaborate closely with globally distributed teams to implement solutions that scale to handle millions of requests per second.
- Utilise technologies such as Java, Scala, microservices, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Dataflow, and Spanner.
- Participate in the operational responsibility for services, including being part of an on-call rotation for critical service at Spotify.
- Drive automation efforts to improve system efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
- Drive the optimization, testing, and tooling efforts to improve the quality of data and systems.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and adopting new technologies.

Who You Are:
- You have at least two years professional experience working in a product-driven environment building production software.
- You know how to write distributed, high-volume services and have strong programming skills in Java and/or Scala.
- Experience with cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including services like Dataflow, GCS, BigQuery and Spanner.
- Ability to work optimally in a remote-first, distributed team environment.
- A track record of designing and driving small to medium-scale automation projects autonomously.

Where You'll Be:
- For this role you will be in London or Madrid

Backend Engineer for Spotify's Data Protection team, building scalable platforms to ensure data security and compliance.

Backend Engineer - Platform

Spotify is a music and podcast streaming platform connecting artists and fans through personalized experiences.

The Personalization team at Spotify is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join their innovative group. This role is crucial in enhancing the user experience by developing and implementing ML models for music recommendations on Spotify's Home surface.

Key Responsibilities:
- Build ML models for generating music recommendation candidates for Spotify's Home surface
- Develop ML models to order music content on carousel shelves
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team to create new user experiences
- Prototype and scale solutions for hundreds of millions of active users
- Conduct A/B testing to improve recommendation experiences
- Participate in an active community of machine learning practitioners
- Occasional on-call monitoring and troubleshooting of production ML systems

Ideal Candidate:
- Strong background in machine learning, especially in personalized algorithms and recommender systems
- Hands-on experience with production ML systems at scale (Java, Scala, Python; TensorFlow a plus)
- Familiarity with data pipeline tools (Apache Beam, Scio) and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)
- Passion for agile processes, data-driven development, and disciplined experimentation
- Customer-centric approach to development

Work Environment:
- Distributed workforce with flexibility in work location within the Americas
- Option to work from home or office
- Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration
- Competitive base salary range of $171,903 - $245,575 plus equity
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, parental leave, 401(k), and more

Join Spotify's Personalization team to shape the future of music recommendations and keep millions of users engaged through personalized experiences.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer role at Spotify, focusing on personalization and music recommendations for the Home surface.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization- Home Music

Spotify is a leading music streaming platform that emphasizes rapid development and experimentation to improve its products for hundreds of millions of users.

Spotify is seeking a Fullstack/Backend Engineer for their Experimentation Platform team. The role is part of the "Think it, build it, ship it, tweak it" development approach, focusing on providing teams with the platform and best practices for rapid and safe iteration of ideas.

You'll be joining a multidisciplinary team passionate about creating the world's best experimentation platform. This role offers the opportunity to develop a wide range of engineering skills, from core backend systems to sophisticated frontends.

Key responsibilities include:
- Developing new high-scale services within the experimentation domain
- Working across the full stack with an emphasis on backend
- Contributing to an autonomous, multi-functional team
- Collaborating with specialists, product owners, and designers
- Participating in on-call rotations

The ideal candidate has:
- Several years of experience building scalable systems
- Proficiency in Java and TypeScript/JavaScript
- Strong backend foundation with comfort across the entire tech stack
- Experience with technologies like experimentation, UX/frontend, API design, and cloud stacks (e.g., GCP)
- A product-focused mindset and willingness to take initiative
- Deep knowledge of writing robust, maintainable applications
- Understanding of distributed high-volume applications

Spotify offers an environment that supports individual growth through challenging work, hack days, thematic guilds, and various internal training courses. This role is based in London, UK, with a hybrid work arrangement.

Join Spotify's Experimentation Platform team and be part of transforming how products are developed and improved for millions of users worldwide.

Join Spotify as a Fullstack/Backend Engineer to build and improve their Experimentation Platform, enabling rapid product iteration and informed decision-making.

Fullstack/Backend Engineer - Experimentation Platform

Spotify is a leading music and podcast streaming platform with hundreds of millions of users.

Spotify, the leading music and podcast streaming platform, is seeking a dedicated and passionate mid-level iOS Engineer to join their Core Experience team in London. As part of this impactful team, you'll work on critical projects for the home screen of the mobile app, which is visited by hundreds of millions of users daily.

In this role, you'll be responsible for building, maintaining, and improving UI components that directly impact user experience. You'll have the opportunity to work with friendly and supportive team members, bringing your unique expertise and style to challenging, high-priority projects that require cross-team collaboration.

Key responsibilities include running features from inception to rollout, collaborating with the Experimentation Platform for A/B testing, managing complex projects alongside staff engineers, and mentoring team members. The ideal candidate should be proficient in Swift, have experience with various iOS frameworks, and possess strong communication skills.

Spotify offers a dynamic work environment where you can make a significant impact on a product used by millions. This hybrid role, based in London, provides an excellent opportunity for growth and learning in a fast-paced, innovative tech company. If you're passionate about iOS development, value quality code, and thrive in collaborative environments, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

Join Spotify as an iOS Engineer II in London, working on core user experiences for millions of users worldwide.

iOS Engineer II, Core Experience

Spotify is a music and audio streaming platform that delivers content to millions of users worldwide.

The Experience mission at Spotify is focused on delivering the best Spotify experience to as many people as possible, in as many moments as possible. We are seeking a (embedded) Senior Software Engineer with a solid understanding of C/Rust (C++ is a plus) to join our PPX R&D Studio team. You will be responsible for building the SDK that runs on embedded devices, impacting the way the world experiences music.

Key responsibilities include:
- Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining code in C/Rust
- Building innovative embedded software for millions of users
- Collaborating with specialists within and outside the organization
- Writing scalable, maintainable code for distributed development teams
- Becoming a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team

The ideal candidate should have:
- Embedded software development skills
- Passion for developing software for resource-constrained embedded systems
- Expertise in architecting, designing, and developing C code
- Knowledge of Rust
- Strong collaborative and communication skills
- Commitment to code quality, reusability, and testability
- Value for agile and modern engineering practices

This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge embedded systems, bringing the joy of music to millions of users worldwide. Join Spotify and help shape the future of music experiences on various devices and platforms.

Senior Embedded Software Engineer role at Spotify, developing SDKs for embedded devices to enhance music experiences worldwide.

Embedded Engineer - Experience

Spotify is a leading music streaming platform that has developed Backstage, an open-source platform for building developer portals.

Originally conceived in Spotify, Backstage is now a leading SaaS and open source platform for building developer portals. Adopted by thousands of companies, Backstage helps customers to restore order to their microservices and infrastructure and enables product teams to ship high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy.

As a Senior Sales Engineer for Backstage at Spotify, you'll be part of a nimble, startup-like team driving an entirely new technology-focused business line. Your role will involve a unique balance of technical knowledge, business acumen, and interpersonal skills to help customers understand and implement Backstage to improve developer productivity.

Key responsibilities include:
- Understanding and explaining Backstage's technical aspects, including architecture, APIs, plugins, and integrations
- Assisting clients with Backstage integration and customization
- Providing technical guidance and troubleshooting support
- Engaging in product demonstrations and proof-of-concept developments
- Collaborating with product management and engineering teams
- Acting as the technical point of contact for clients

The ideal candidate will have:
- Strong background in software engineering or DevOps
- Proficiency in web development (React, TypeScript, Node)
- Experience with cloud platforms and enterprise-level integrations
- Problem-solving abilities with a focus on customer satisfaction
- Prior experience as a Sales Engineer or Solutions Architect
- Hands-on experience with Backstage or similar developer portals

This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of developer productivity tools while working in a dynamic, innovative environment at Spotify.

Senior Sales Engineer role at Spotify for Backstage, an open-source developer portal platform, based in London.

Senior Sales Engineer - Backstage

We're looking for a Senior Partner Engineer to join our team responsible for partner integrations, including Bluetooth and Spotify Connect, on various devices such as speakers and headphones. In this role, you'll collaborate with internal and external partners to drive integrations, resolve technical issues, and enhance the overall Spotify experience.

As a team member, you'll become an expert in our partner integrations, working with a diverse range of APIs, SDKs, and systems that power integrations for devices like Sonos speakers, Samsung Family Hub, and many others. You'll interface with partners worldwide to integrate the Spotify experience into their platforms or translate their requirements into actionable work for our engineering teams.

Key responsibilities include:
- Driving partner-specific projects to enable the Spotify experience for millions of users globally
- Owning the partner journey and improving related processes
- Developing effective communication strategies
- Unblocking internal and external teams by addressing dependencies and technical risks
- Ensuring reusable partner solutions that consider strategic concerns
- Maintaining high-quality Spotify experiences with partners
- Mentoring less experienced partner engineers

The ideal candidate has experience working closely with partners, excellent communication skills across cultures and domains, and a background in Software Engineering in an agile environment. Proficiency in programming languages like C, C++, and Python is preferred, along with knowledge of build and release tools. You should be comfortable with flexible working hours for international video calls and occasional travel to visit partners.

This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge audio technology integrations, collaborate with global partners, and shape the future of how users experience Spotify across various devices and platforms. Join us in Stockholm to be part of a team that's revolutionizing the way the world listens to music and audio content.

Senior Partner Engineer role at Spotify, focusing on device integrations and partner collaborations.

Senior Partner Engineer - Speakers n' Stuff

Spotify is a leading music and podcast streaming platform that focuses on personalized recommendations to keep millions of users listening worldwide.

The Personalization team at Spotify is seeking a Data Engineer with backend experience to join their team. This role is at the forefront of developing Spotify's recommendation systems, powering personalized content across music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The position offers a unique opportunity to shape how Spotify recommendations work, allowing you to grow your skills in engineering at scale, drive significant business impact, and join a high-energy, positive team environment.

Key responsibilities include:
- Building large-scale data pipelines using frameworks like Scio, BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform, and Apache Beam
- Developing, deploying, and operating Java services that impact millions of users
- Working on machine learning projects to power personalized user experiences
- Collaborating with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders
- Delivering scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
- Sharing knowledge and promoting standard methodologies

The ideal candidate should have:
- Strong knowledge of Scala and interest in sharing this knowledge
- Experience with JVM-based data processing frameworks (e.g., Beam, Dataflow, Spark)
- Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes-based Java applications
- Knowledge of DevOps best practices and familiarity with Docker
- Understanding of machine learning principles
- Commitment to high-quality code and agile software processes
- Value for collaboration and partnership within teams

This role offers the opportunity to keep millions of users engaged with great recommendations every day, making a significant impact on the Spotify user experience.

Join Spotify as a Data Engineer in Personalization, building large-scale data pipelines and recommendation systems for millions of users.

Data Engineer, Personalization

Spotify is a leading audio streaming platform connecting artists and fans through personalized experiences.

We're looking for a Machine Learning Engineer II to join our team focusing on messaging optimization. Through our messaging platform, we communicate with users to connect them with valuable audio content and to help the business grow. The team's vision is to build the machine learning models and infrastructure that offers a fully personalized and ML-optimized experience for listeners throughout their user journey that powers every messaging and conversion campaign at Spotify. Our team is a combination of Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers, Backend Engineers and Data Scientists.

**What You'll Do:**
- Contribute to designing, building, evaluating, shipping, and refining Spotify's product by hands-on ML development.
- Collaborate with a multi-functional agile team spanning user research, design, data science, product management, and engineering to build new product features that advance our mission to connect artists and fans in personalized and relevant ways.
- Prototype new approaches and productionize solutions at scale for our hundreds of millions of active users.
- Help drive optimisation, testing, and tooling to improve quality.
- Be part of an active group of machine learning practitioners in your mission and across Spotify.

**Who You Are:**
- You have a strong background in machine learning, theory, and practice.
- You are comfortable explaining the intuition and assumptions behind ML concepts, experience in the messaging space is a plus.
- You have hands-on experience implementing and maintaining production ML systems in Python, Scala and using libraries like Tensorflow or PyTorch.
- You are experienced with building data pipelines, and you are self-sufficient in getting the data you need to build and evaluate your models.
- You preferably have experience with cloud platforms like GCP or AWS.

**Where You'll Be:**
- For this role you will be based in London.

Join Spotify as a Machine Learning Engineer II to optimize messaging and create personalized user experiences.

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A leading technology company that created Backstage, an open source platform for building developer portals.