23 hours ago
Stockholm, Sweden or London, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and evolve backend services and APIs for data catalog, lineage, and publishing systems.
- Develop and run batch and streaming pipelines that process platform events and audit logs and produce metadata, lineage, and data products.
- Translate platform-user needs into technical designs, drive projects through delivery and rollout, and own production outcomes.
- Participate in on-call for critical services and build observability, quality checks, and automation to reduce toil.
- Collaborate across teams and maintain high standards for correctness, performance, reliability, and backward compatibility.
Requirements
- Solid production experience building and running backend services and APIs with Java.
- Comfort with SQL and experience with data pipelines or a cloud data warehouse such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks.
- Hands-on experience with batch or streaming frameworks such as Beam, Flink, or Spark is preferred.
- Working knowledge of orchestration, metadata management, data quality, governance, and lineage.
- Ability to develop clear technical designs, reason through tradeoffs and risks, and deliver shippable solutions.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with ownership of software quality and production operations, including AI-assisted code.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement with some in-person meetings and the ability to work from home.
- Role based in Stockholm or London.
- Accessible recruitment process with reasonable accommodations available.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Spotify
Spotify builds a global audio streaming platform for listeners and creators, offering on-demand music and podcasts across mobile, desktop, and connected devices. The business runs a freemium model: an ad-supported free tier and a paid Premium subscription, plus creator tools like Spotify for Artists and podcast publishing. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Stockholm, it is a publicly traded company on the NYSE (SPOT) serving consumers and rights holders worldwide.