Anyfin is building the next generation of consumer finance. We’re profitable, scaling quickly, and now operating with a banking license which opens up a lot of technical complexity. We’re looking for a senior backend engineer with cloud experience who enjoys moving fast, taking real ownership, and building things that actually have an impact. If that sounds like your kind of environment, keep reading. Because honestly, it’s not a role for everyone. Small team, high responsibility We hire carefully. We’re not a company that grows by adding headcount everywhere, we grow by keeping the bar high and building a team where every person matters. This isn’t a place where you disappear into a big org. If you join, you’ll have real influence on what we build and how we build it. What you’ll do Building, optimizing and scaling robust financial backend systems using Node.js and SQL (Postgres) Working primarily in the backend while contributing to our cloud infrastructure, helping design and operate systems across networking, servers and database architectures to support scalable and reliable services. Contributing to system architecture to ensure scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability of financial systems. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to shape both product direction and business strategy. Sharing backend expertise with the team while promoting best practices, along with strong cloud and infrastructure competence. Our main stack is TypeScript, Node.js, React, React Native running on Google Cloud Platform. How we think about building We’re pragmatic. We like speed, but we also care about building things that last. AI isn’t a side tool here. It’s embedded in how we work helping engineers move faster, reduce friction and focus on solving meaningful problems. We’re looking for engineers who are curious about that shift and want to be part of it, rather than people who feel like good engineering means doing everything the hard way. No ego. Just g
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LilEngine is leading the Lakehouse, a company-strategic effort to make Apache Iceberg a first-class citizen in Spotify's data ecosystem. We're building it in close collaboration with Google, on open standards, so that different kinds of data are queryable the same way and teams can bring the right engine, from BigQuery to Dataflow to Trino, to the job.
The work has two parts. Hecate enables Iceberg for the Parquet datasets that already exist across Spotify, so teams get the benefits without rewriting their data. Alongside it, we're building the foundations of a new Lakehouse architecture that lets workflows write Iceberg tables natively. We're shipping the MVP this cycle, and you'll help shape what comes next.
We also own BigQuery for all of Spotify. Thousands of engineers, data scientists and pipelines depend on it every day, which puts us on the critical path for storing, finding and querying data. We're judged on reliability, cost efficiency and how quickly we unblock users when something breaks. This backend role sits where open table formats, cloud data warehouses and processing engines meet.
What You'll Do
Build and evolve the lakehouse: Help build the foundations that let data workflows read and write Iceberg tables directly, from this cycle's MVP to a production-grade platform.
Drive adoption: Help migrate data pipelines from across Spotify onto the new stack, making the move as painless as possible through tooling, standards and hands-on support.
Own BigQuery at Spotify scale: Manage reservations and capacity, build monitoring and anti-pattern detection, and develop tooling like the BigQuery MCP server so teams can use BigQuery well.
Keep the platform healthy: Take part in a weekly support rotation and shared on-call. You'll debug production issues that span storage formats, catalog APIs, Kubernetes reconciliation, GCP IAM and BigQuery internals, and you'll automate away recurring toil.
Who You Are
You have solid experience building and operating backend services in production with Java or Scala.
You're comfortable on GCP and Kubernetes. You can read kubectl output, reason about IAM and quotas, and work with CRDs and operators. You don't need deep expertise in all of these on day one.
You've worked with Apache Iceberg or JVM-based processing frameworks like Spark, Beam or Flink, or with a cloud data warehouse such as BigQuery, Snowflake or Databricks.
You think in systems and can connect the dots when a problem crosses several layers of the stack.
You like owning things in production, and you're motivated by seeing your systems run reliably for thousands of users.
You communicate clearly in writing and work well asynchronously across US and EU time zones.
You own the quality of what you ship, including code written with AI assistance.
Where You'll Be
This role is based in London or Stockholm.
We offer the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meeetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
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.What they are looking for
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