Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Identity and access management sits at the center of any subscription platform, and this Backend Engineer role is anchored in that reality. User Platform’s remit spans customer identity and account data, while Lockness focuses on business authorization, a layer that governs how internal teams and systems safely interact. In a SaaS environment with many product surfaces, authorization becomes a shared platform capability rather than an isolated service, making the work inherently cross-cutting and foundational.
For a SaaS career, platform IAM experience translates broadly across companies that need secure multi-product access patterns, clear permission models, and reliable APIs. The listing signals exposure to production-grade availability expectations through SLAs, plus the craft of building services that other teams depend on. The emphasis on collaborating across verticals also mirrors how mature SaaS organizations operate, where platform teams enable product delivery without owning end-user features directly.
This role fits engineers who prefer end-to-end ownership from design to deployment and who enjoy solving ambiguous systems problems with many stakeholders. It also suits someone comfortable balancing backend depth with awareness of adjacent layers like data and front end, and who is interested in applying AI pragmatically to engineering workflows.
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
User Platform (UP) is a studio in the SAFE Alliance as part of Spotify's Platform Mission. The studio owns capabilities and infrastructure for Customer Identity and Access Management at Spotify.
The studio was established with a central mission: to connect users with Spotify and Spotify with its users. Its purpose is to provide a secure platform that allows users to establish their identity and manage their account data across various interfaces. At the same time, it empowers teams across Spotify to reliably tailor the overall user experience to meet individual needs.
User Platform is responsible for many of the core services needed for Spotify to function and provide the 700M+ users across the world access to the audio experience they desire.
Lockness is the team that powers business authorization at Spotify. We own how access is defined and scaled across every vertical in the company. As a full-stack team, we build foundational IAM capabilities that keep Spotify secure while enabling teams to move fast. As a Backend Engineer, you’ll help build, maintain and scale the next generation of Business IAM, expanding our authorization platform in both depth and reach.
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What You'll Do - Design, develop, and deploy backend services and APIs that power Spotify's creator authorization systems.
- Collaborate with different cross-disciplined teams on complex problems. This team works with almost all verticals at Spotify (Music, Audiobooks, Podcasts, etc.)
- Maintaining business-critical Spotify authorization systems, ensuring high availability, stability, and adherence to SLAs.
- Embrace and promote sound engineering practices and contribute to a culture of high-quality, scalable, and reliable systems.
- Actively contribute to our learning culture by sharing knowledge and mentoring other engineers.
- Leverage AI to improve our systems, automate tasks, and drive business impact. We believe in "AI Fluency" and expect our engineers to be knowledgeable and willing to learn and apply AI to their work
Who You Are- You’re a problem solver who loves seeing things through from concept to production and you’re eager to learn whatever skills are needed along the way.
- You are a Fullstack Developer who understands the complexities of Server side vs Client side development and is interested in crossing the lines between Backend, Data and Front End.
- You have 3+ years of experience with Java, SQL and ideally familiar with React, Typescript, Next.js
- You’re a collaborative teammate who values inclusion and open communication.
- You have an understanding of the authorization domain and are eager to learn.
Where You'll Be- This role is based in Toronto.
- 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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The Canadian base range for this position is 103,321- 147,602 CAD plus equity.
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.
