Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Authentication and identity sit at the heart of modern SaaS, shaping everything from security posture to user conversion and retention. This Backend Engineer role focuses on the “user platform” layer that underpins login and access at global scale, where reliability and latency are product features in their own right. Work on core auth infrastructure also tends to touch multiple surfaces—web, mobile, and internal services—making it a strong vantage point on how large SaaS platforms operate.
From a career perspective, the remit maps to durable SaaS engineering skills: designing highly available services, deploying and iterating safely, and optimizing performance under real-world traffic. Operational ownership and potential on-call responsibility build practical fluency in incident response, observability, and service stewardship—capabilities that transfer across subscription businesses where uptime and trust directly affect revenue and customer experience.
This position suits engineers who prefer backend-heavy problem spaces with clear production constraints, and who like collaborating in cross-functional settings. It will fit someone motivated by platform work that prioritizes correctness, scalability, and maintainability, and who values improving systems incrementally through testing, continuous delivery, and shared engineering practices.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
We are looking for talented, engaged software engineers to join our teams who are passionate about working on highly available, low latency backend services that form the backbone of our authentication experience for hundreds of millions of users across the globe. You’ll be directly helping with the evolution of Spotify’s overall authentication infrastructure while also being able to innovate to create better, more seamless user experiences to help users access Spotify.
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What You'll Do- Work across the stack in a cross-functional team that helps deliver a magical experience to all of our users around the world
- Design, develop, deploy and optimize high-efficiency backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability
- Deliver testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
- Share knowledge, promote standard methodologies, and collaborate with equally passionate members of your team
- Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, potentially including taking part in an on-call rotation
- Work in an environment that thrives with diversity and one that cultivates your individual growth by exposing you to exciting problems, a network of equally skilled peers, and the ability to acquire new skills through various mechanisms outside your day-to-day work.
Who You Are- You are an inclusive colleague and a truly phenomenal teammate
- Have a proven understanding of Java
- You are interested in keeping up with current standard methodologies in your areas of expertise
- You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming, and automated testing
- You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to craft pragmatic solutions
- Knowledge in one or more areas of Web, Data or Mobile Engineering is a definite plus
- You are not afraid to learn new skills in order to help your team achieve its goals.
- You're passionate about your work, towards helping your team achieve its goals
Where You'll Be- This role is based in London.
- 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.
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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.
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.
