Senior Backend Engineer, Payments

What you’ll do

• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
• Design, develop and maintain backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability.
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call rotation
• Work closely with operations and compliance teams to make sure that you collaboratively provide for the company’s short- and long-term goals, differentiating between building what is asked for and what is truly needed in the payments domain.
• Maintain and update our PCI environment
• Hack on what you want during regular system hack days and bi-annual hack weeks.

• You are an awesome engineer working with scalable distributed systems that is more than comfortable writing Python (or Java) and working with Postgres.
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery and automated testing and have experience in working on cloud platforms like GCP / AWS.
• You are passionate about what you do and have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
• Experience in working within the e-commerce, subscription or payments domain is a plus. 

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. Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 345 million users.