Backend Engineer, Music

Spotify • New York, NY

9d • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Build backend services that power campaign booking and management flows
• Design and develop APIs that support campaign creation and execution
• Work closely with product and design to bring new features to life
• Improve system scalability, performance, and reliability
• Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture through code reviews and knowledge sharing
• Help evolve our architecture as we grow and scale

Benefits

• health insurance
• six month paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• monthly meal allowance
• 23 paid days off
• 13 paid flexible holidays
• paid sick leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees