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Backend Engineer – Platform Developer Experience
Location
New York
Posted
7 hours ago
Salary
$132.9K - $189.9K / year
Bachelor Degree3 yrs expEnglishDistributed SystemsJavaJava ScriptNode.jsPython
Job Description
• Build and evolve backend services that power AI Fleet Management across Spotify and Portal’s external customers
• Design scalable distributed systems that support safe, observable, and repeatable fleet-wide changes
• Integrate AI-native capabilities into backend workflows using modern LLM tooling and agent-based automation
• Develop services across a polyglot backend stack including Java, Python, and Node.js
• Take ownership of well-scoped services end-to-end, including participating in operational support and on-call rotation
• Collaborate with product, design, and go-to-market partners to shape practical, customer-facing platform capabilities
• Contribute to strong engineering fundamentals including automated testing, observability, reliability, and continuous delivery
• Help evolve internal and external APIs, SDKs, and platform primitives used daily by other engineers
Job Requirements
- 3+ years of experience building backend services and distributed systems
- strong experience in Java and Python and are comfortable working in a polyglot environment that includes Node.js
- experience designing and operating production systems with reliability and scalability in mind
- comfortable taking ownership of services from implementation through production support
- care about developer experience and how APIs, tooling, and workflows are consumed
- practice continuous delivery, automated testing, and clean engineering habits
- communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across engineering and cross-functional teams
Benefits
- health insurance
- six-month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- paid flexible holidays
- paid sick leave