New York, NY Remote (Country) Employment $107,483 - $153,547

Spotify is hiring a Backend Engineer, Music

About the Role

Develop high-impact backend services to improve music-related features and infrastructure, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability across platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services for music features
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to define feature requirements
  • Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Work with data to improve music recommendations and personalization
  • Support the full development lifecycle from concept to deployment
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues promptly
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions
  • Integrate with internal and external music data sources
  • Ensure data consistency across platforms and services
  • Contribute to API design and evolution
  • Monitor system health and respond to alerts
  • Improve developer tooling and internal workflows
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams on cross-functional initiatives
  • Help define technical direction for music-related services
  • Implement solutions that scale across global user bases
  • Work with streaming and catalog data at large volumes
  • Support metadata management and music content ingestion
  • Ensure low-latency responses for real-time features
  • Maintain alignment with long-term architecture goals
  • Drive improvements in system observability
  • Contribute to incident response and on-call rotations
  • Evaluate new technologies and frameworks for fit
  • Promote best practices in software engineering
  • Support internationalization and localization needs

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexibility based on location and role needs

Team

Part of the Music organization, focused on enhancing core music experiences

What We Value

  • Collaborative mindset with a focus on team success
  • Curiosity and passion for building great user experiences

Why This Role Matters

  • Direct impact on how users discover and interact with music
  • Opportunity to shape the future of audio streaming platforms

Available for qualified candidates depending on role and location

About company
Spotify
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.
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Job Details
Department Engineering – Music
Category backend
Posted a month ago