Backend Engineer, Music at Spotify in New York, NY

In the Music Mission, we build the tools and services that enable creators to express themselves, promote their work, and connect with fans.  Discovery Mode is a key promotional tool that helps artists, labels, and licensors grow their audience while maintaining a high-quality listener experience.

You’ll join the Bonfire team, where we focus on building the entire end-to-end campaign booking experience, from intuitive frontend interfaces to the backend services that power them.  As a member of the Bonfire team, you’ll own the full lifecycle of campaign management tools, ensuring that the flow—from the first click to the final execution—is seamless, reliable, and scalable.

In the Music Mission, we build the tools and services that enable creators to express themselves, promote their work, and connect with fans.  Discovery Mode is a key promotional tool that helps artists, labels, and licensors grow their audience while maintaining a high-quality listener experience.

You’ll join the Bonfire team, where we focus on building the entire end-to-end campaign booking experience, from intuitive frontend interfaces to the backend services that power them.  As a member of the Bonfire team, you’ll own the full lifecycle of campaign management tools, ensuring that the flow—from the first click to the final execution—is seamless, reliable, and scalable.

In the Music Mission, we build the tools and services that enable creators to express themselves, promote their work, and connect with fans.  Discovery Mode is a key promotional tool that helps artists, labels, and licensors grow their audience while maintaining a high-quality listener experience.   We are looking for a Backend focused engineer to join the OASIS team.  OASIS builds and operates the systems that power promotion delivery and optimization within Discovery Mode.  Our work ensures that promotional content isn’t just "surfaced", but is intelligently allocated by balancing complex, competing objectives across our entire ecosystem. The team is distributed and highly collaborative, working closely with Personalization (PZN) to serve high-quality promotion signals. You’ll be part of a small, impactful group of engineers across data and machine learning, owning a core piece of infrastructure that enables promotion delivery at scale.

What You'll Do


Who You Are

You have experience developing backend systems using Java

You know how to design APIs and work with service-based architectures

You write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

You care about performance, scalability, and system reliability

You enjoy working collaboratively in cross-functional teams

You are curious, proactive, and motivated to learn and grow

You have experience contributing to production systems

You are driven to leverage AI to improve our systems, and eager to find practical ways to apply it

Where You'll Be