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Senior Backend Engineer - Subscriptions

spotify · London

This posting has closed on 25 June 2026.

Description

The Subscriptions Mission builds and scales the products, platforms, and business models that convert free listeners into lifelong Premium subscribers. We focus on driving acquisition, optimizing conversion, improving retention, and delivering seamless commerce experiences that fuel Spotify’s growth and bring fans closer to the creators they love. At Spotify, our Subscriptions data powers the decision engines and experiences behind our 700M+ Monthly Active Users and 290M+ Premium subscribers.

You’ll join the User Understanding team, where we build the backend systems and data foundations that power merchandising, conversion, and upsell journeys. Our work directly impacts subscriber growth and revenue, enabling smarter decision-making through heuristics, experimentation, and ML-powered capabilities. The Subscriptions Mission builds and scales the products, platforms, and business models that convert free listeners into lifelong Premium subscribers.

We focus on driving acquisition, optimizing conversion, improving retention, and delivering seamless commerce experiences that fuel Spotify’s growth and bring fans closer to the creators they love. At Spotify, our Subscriptions data powers the decision engines and experiences behind our 700M+ Monthly Active Users and 290M+ Premium subscribers. You’ll join the User Understanding team, where we build the backend systems and data foundations that power merchandising, conversion, and upsell journeys.

Our work directly impacts subscriber growth and revenue, enabling smarter decision-making through heuristics, experimentation, and ML-powered capabilities. Spotify 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. At 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.

Posting history

Reposted 2 times since 14 March 2026: a posting for this role in London was taken down and the role was posted again.

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