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Senior Software Engineer

Spotify· Engineering – Platform
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Hybrid (Toronto)PermanentPosted 2w ago

About the role

Backend-focused role within Spotify's Platform team (Authorization). Build, operate, and evolve authorization, permissions, and team management systems powering creators and their teams across Spotify.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • Deep experience designing, building, and operating backend services, with strong knowledge of Java or comparable backend technologies.
  • Experience owning distributed, high-scale, or business-critical systems where reliability, performance, and security matter.
  • Experience working with relational databases at scale, including performance optimization and database tuning.
  • Ability to reason about architecture, APIs, dependencies, data flows, and the broader impact of technical decisions across a platform.
  • Experience working in a product-driven environment and connecting technical decisions to user and business outcomes.
  • Ability to make pragmatic engineering trade-offs and prefer simpler solutions when valuable.
  • Strong collaboration within and across teams, sharing context and helping others make better technical decisions.
  • Comfort with contributing across the stack when needed, with strongest expertise in backend engineering.
  • Adaptability to evolving requirements and systems, with curiosity and sound technical judgment.

Skills

Required:Backend engineeringDistributed systemsRelational databasesArchitecture & API designProduct-driven decision makingCollaborationAdaptability
Nice to have:Full-stack contribution (backend focus)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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