Backend Engineer, Audiobooks

Spotify is revolutionizing the audiobook industry through their innovative Audiobooks in Premium model, seeking a Backend Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role focuses on building and optimizing the systems that power Spotify's audiobook content delivery platform. You'll be instrumental in designing scalable architectures, ensuring seamless content integration, and maintaining high-performance systems that serve millions of users.

The position offers an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies while solving complex challenges in content delivery and metadata management. You'll be part of a team that's building the future of audio content consumption, working with modern tech stack including Java, Python, and Node.js, along with cloud platforms and containerization tools.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll take ownership of critical systems, contribute to technical documentation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative features. The role combines technical expertise with strategic thinking, as you'll be responsible for both immediate system optimization and long-term scalability planning.

Spotify offers a competitive compensation package, including equity, comprehensive health benefits, and generous paid time off. The company embraces a distributed workforce model, providing flexibility in work location and schedule while maintaining collaboration through Eastern Standard time zone operations. This is an excellent opportunity for engineers who are passionate about building high-quality systems at scale and want to be part of transforming the audiobook industry.