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Backend Engineer, Music

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In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in New York, NY, USA
107K-154K Annually
Mid level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in New York, NY, USA
107K-154K Annually
Mid level
The Backend Engineer will build backend services for campaign management, design APIs, enhance system performance, and collaborate with teams.
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In the Music Mission, we build the tools and services that enable creators to express themselves, promote their work, and connect with fans.  Discovery Mode is a key promotional tool that helps artists, labels, and licensors grow their audience while maintaining a high-quality listener experience.

You’ll join the Bonfire team, where we focus on building the entire end-to-end campaign booking experience, from intuitive frontend interfaces to the backend services that power them.  As a member of the Bonfire team, you’ll own the full lifecycle of campaign management tools, ensuring that the flow—from the first click to the final execution—is seamless, reliable, and scalable.

What You'll Do

  • Build backend services that power campaign booking and management flows
  • Design and develop APIs that support campaign creation and execution
  • Work closely with product and design to bring new features to life
  • Improve system scalability, performance, and reliability
  • Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture through code reviews and knowledge sharing
  • Help evolve our architecture as we grow and scale
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Who You Are

  • You have experience developing backend systems using Java

  • You know how to design APIs and work with service-based architectures

  • You write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

  • You care about performance, scalability, and system reliability

  • You enjoy working collaboratively in cross-functional teams

  • You are curious, proactive, and motivated to learn and grow

  • You have experience contributing to production systems

  • You are driven to leverage AI to improve our systems, and eager to find practical ways to apply it

Where You'll Be

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North America region as long as we have a work location.
  • This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $107,483- $153,547 equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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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Spotify New York, New York, USA Office

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