Senior Software Engineer

What You'll Do:

• 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.

Who You Are:

• You have deep experience designing, building, and operating backend services, with strong knowledge of Java or comparable backend technologies.

• You have experience owning distributed, high-scale, or business-critical systems where reliability, performance, and security matter.

• You have experience working with relational databases at scale, including performance optimization and database tuning.

• You think beyond individual services and can reason about architecture, APIs, dependencies, data flows, and the impact technical decisions have across a broader platform.

• You have experience working in a product-driven environment and connect technical decisions to user and business outcomes.

• You make pragmatic engineering trade-offs and know when a simpler solution is more valuable than unnecessary technical complexity.

• You collaborate effectively within and across teams, sharing context and helping others make better technical decisions.

• You are comfortable contributing across the stack when needed, while your strongest expertise is in backend engineering.

• You adapt as requirements and systems evolve, approaching change with curiosity and sound technical judgment.

Where You'll Be:

• This role is based in Toronto

• 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.