{"active":true,"apply_url":"https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/e04833c0-9cff-4b5e-b217-91a3bcb57051/apply","company":{"claimed":false,"name":"Spotify","slug":"spotify","website":"https://www.spotify.com"},"countries":["CA"],"employment_type":"full-time","first_seen_at":"2026-10-15T11:41:54Z","getwork_url":"https://getwork.dev/jobs/lv-spotify-e04833c0-9cff-4b5e-b217-91a3bcb57051/","id":"lv-spotify-e04833c0-9cff-4b5e-b217-91a3bcb57051","injection_flag":false,"last_seen_at":"2026-10-28T23:00:10Z","location":"Toronto","published_at":"2026-10-02T13:54:24Z","regions":["north_america"],"remote":"remote","role_family":"software","salary":null,"seniority":"senior","stack":["java"],"stack_mentioned":[],"title":"Senior Software Engineer","untrusted_description":"\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n-\nDesign, build, deploy, and operate scalable backend services that power authorization, permissions, and team management across Spotify.\n\n-\nTake ownership of critical systems that enable creators, teams, agents, licensors, and other partners to securely access and manage the right content and capabilities.\n\n-\nEvolve our backend architecture to support continued growth in users, use cases, and Spotify products while maintaining high standards for reliability, performance, and security.\n\n-\nImprove the systems and workflows that enable creators to gain access to their content, profiles, and teams.\n\n-\nMake thoughtful technical decisions and trade-offs, balancing long-term architecture with solutions that meet current product and business needs.\n\n-\nPartner with engineers and cross-functional collaborators across Spotify to understand authorization needs and build reusable platform capabilities.\n\n-\nContribute to frontend experiences and data-related work when useful, while bringing deep expertise and leadership to backend engineering.\n\n-\nRaise engineering quality through strong technical judgment, design discussions, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing across the team.\n\nWho You Are:\n-\nYou have deep experience designing, building, and operating backend services, with strong knowledge of Java or comparable backend technologies.\n\n-\nYou have experience owning distributed, high-scale, or business-critical systems where reliability, performance, and security matter.\n\n-\nYou have experience working with relational databases at scale, including performance optimization and database tuning.\n\n-\nYou think beyond individual services and can reason about architecture, APIs, dependencies, data flows, and the impact technical decisions have across a broader platform.\n\n-\nYou have experience working in a product-driven environment and connect technical decisions to user and business outcomes.\n\n-\nYou make pragmatic engineering trade-offs and know when a simpler solution is more valuable than unnecessary technical complexity.\n\n-\nYou collaborate effectively within and across teams, sharing context and helping others make better technical decisions.\n\n-\nYou are comfortable contributing across the stack when needed, while your strongest expertise is in backend engineering.\n\n-\nYou adapt as requirements and systems evolve, approaching change with curiosity and sound technical judgment.\n\nWhere You'll Be:\n-\nThis role is based in Toronto\n\n-\nWe 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.\n\nSpotify 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.\n\nAt 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.","url":"https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/e04833c0-9cff-4b5e-b217-91a3bcb57051"}