Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Backend Engineer role stands out in the SaaS landscape because it sits at the platform layer, building shared infrastructure that internal product teams depend on. The focus on AI agents and Model Context Protocol servers signals an organisation treating LLM-powered systems as a first-class platform concern, with attention to reliability, safety, and operability rather than isolated prototypes. That combination is increasingly central as SaaS companies industrialise AI capabilities across multiple teams.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps closely to enduring platform engineering themes: multi-tenant style internal consumption, standardisation, and developer enablement. Experience designing orchestration, lifecycle management, and evaluation frameworks translates well to other SaaS environments where product velocity depends on strong internal platforms. The emphasis on observability, deployment, and quality metrics also builds a practical toolkit for running distributed systems in production, which remains a differentiator for senior backend engineers.
The role is best suited to engineers who enjoy cross-team collaboration and shaping conventions that others will adopt. It will fit someone comfortable balancing API design with operational excellence, and who prefers building reusable primitives over shipping single end-user features. Stockholm-based candidates who value some in-person alignment alongside flexibility should find the setup straightforward.
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
At Spotify, we build tools that help teams do their best work. The AiKA squad is focused on shaping the future of AI-powered knowledge and autonomous agents across the company.
We create the foundations that support Spotify’s growing ecosystem of internal AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. This includes the infrastructure, standards, and tooling needed to make these systems reliable, safe, and scalable. As this space evolves, we’re helping define how enterprise AI platforms are built and used in practice.
As a Senior Backend Engineer in Platform Developer Experience, you’ll help shape the future of how AI agents are developed, evaluated, and operated at Spotify. You’ll work across teams and technologies to build shared infrastructure, improve developer workflows, and enable engineers to build AI-powered systems with confidence.
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What You'll do
- Build and scale backend platforms that power AI agents and MCP servers across Spotify
- Design reliable infrastructure for orchestration, lifecycle management, monitoring, and deployment of AI-powered systems
- Define platform standards, tooling, and best practices that support secure, scalable, and high-quality agent development
- Develop evaluation frameworks including automated testing pipelines, benchmarks, and quality metrics for AI systems
- Improve observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and performance analysis across distributed systems
- Build APIs, SDKs, templates, and self-service tools that improve the developer experience for teams building with AI
- Partner with engineers and cross-functional teams across Spotify to align on architecture, platform capabilities, and operational excellence
- Contribute to technical direction and help evolve the foundations of Spotify’s internal AI ecosystem
Who You Are
- You have experience building and operating large-scale backend or platform infrastructure in cloud-native environments
- You are experienced with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and modern infrastructure tooling
- You understand how AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and LLM-powered applications work in production environments
- You know how to design testing strategies, evaluation frameworks, and quality measurements for complex systems
- You have experience building APIs, developer platforms, integration layers, or connectivity protocols at scale
- You are comfortable working with observability tooling and improving reliability, scalability, and system performance
- You write clean, maintainable code in languages such as Python or TypeScript
- You communicate clearly, collaborate effectively across teams, and enjoy solving problems with others
- You care about creating intuitive developer experiences and enabling teams to move faster with confidence
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in London or Stockholm
- 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.
