Junior Backend Engineer

What You’ll Do

• You will collaborate with a team of engineers, product, designers and data scientists to build end-to-end client facing experiences used by millions of users
• You will architect, develop, and operate backend systems that can scale globally, following good design and development practices
• You will take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including joining an on-call rotation

Who You Are

• You have experience of building and operating backend services with Java frameworks
• You’re passionate about your work, striving towards the goals of the team and, ultimately, the Spotify mission - “giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be passionate about it"
• You enjoy working collaboratively on a full-stack team, using agile processes to deliver a project in incremental phases
• You solve problems methodically and can investigate issues in complex systems with a positive and proactive attitude
• You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code
• You enjoy learning as well as teaching others. Our engineers are T-shaped, which means being capable of using the right technology as a tool when needed
• You are able to reason about trade offs of different databases and preferably have hands on experience with SQL and No SQL ones 

Where You’ll Be

• This role is based in London (UK).
• We 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. We ask that you come in 3 times per week.