Senior Software Engineer

Gomyneed Private Limited; Toronto; Remote; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Remote (Toronto). The role focuses on designing, building, and operating backend services that scale to support authorization, permissions, and team management across Spotify.

You will own critical distributed systems, evolve backend architecture, and ensure reliability, performance, and security while aligning technical decisions with product outcomes.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Skills

Java

Relational databases

Architecture design

Job description

# Senior Software EngineerSpotify Remote (Toronto) Full-timeFull-timeRemoteSoftware Engineering---## About this roleSpotify is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Remote (Toronto)). This is a remote software development role listed on the official Spotify careers site.About the Role:The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.Key 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 needsRequirements & Details:• 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 outcomesJob Type: Full-timeWork Mode: RemoteApply directly on the Spotify careers page using the Apply button.Company: SpotifyLocation: Remote (Toronto)Job Type: Full-timeCategory: Software EngineeringWork Mode: Remote