ROLE: SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER TEAM: PRODUCT LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID) COMPANY OVERVIEW Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation. Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results. We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients. ROLE OVERVIEW Join us as a Senior Software Engineer building the next generation of AI products. This is a hands-on senior software development role: you'll spend roughly 80% of your time designing, building, and shipping full-stack product features and backend services, working with the latest AI, cloud, and developer technologies to deliver solutions used across the organization. The remaining ~20% is platform work — keeping the cloud environments, data pipelines, and deployment tooling behind our AI products reliable and secure. Working closely with product and engineering, you will own features end to end — from technical design through release and iteration — while contributing to the CI/CD, infrastructure, and security practices that keep our AI platforms running well. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Software Engineering Build full-stack applications: Design, develop, and maintain Python & Node.js backend services and modern React frontends, delivering reliable APIs and intuitive user experiences. Own delivery end to end: Translate business requirements into tec
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CA$136,000–CA$165,000 / year for comparable Senior Software Engineer roles in Toronto. Not employer-provided.
Role overview
Job description
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.
Spotify is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Authorization team within Platform. Our team builds and operates the authorization and permissioning systems that enable creators and their teams to securely access and manage their presence across Spotify. What began by supporting Spotify for Artists has grown into foundational capabilities used across Spotify, including Music, Podcasts, and Audiobooks.
This is a backend-focused role working on systems that sit on a critical path for Spotify's creator ecosystem. You'll help us evolve these systems as they grow in scale and complexity, bringing strong backend engineering expertise while collaborating across product, frontend, and data when needed.
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Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable backend services that power authorization, permissions, and team management across Spotify.
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Take ownership of critical systems that enable creators, teams, agents, licensors, and other partners to securely access and manage the right content and capabilities.
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Evolve our backend architecture to support continued growth in users, use cases, and Spotify products while maintaining high standards for reliability, performance, and security.
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Improve the systems and workflows that enable creators to gain access to their content, profiles, and teams.
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Make thoughtful technical decisions and trade-offs, balancing long-term architecture with solutions that meet current product and business needs.
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Partner with engineers and cross-functional collaborators across Spotify to understand authorization needs and build reusable platform capabilities.
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Contribute to frontend experiences and data-related work when useful, while bringing deep expertise and leadership to backend engineering.
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Raise engineering quality through strong technical judgment, design discussions, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing across the team.
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You have deep experience designing, building, and operating backend services, with strong knowledge of Java or comparable backend technologies.
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You have experience owning distributed, high-scale, or business-critical systems where reliability, performance, and security matter.
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You have experience working with relational databases at scale, including performance optimization and database tuning.
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You think beyond individual services and can reason about architecture, APIs, dependencies, data flows, and the impact technical decisions have across a broader platform.
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You have experience working in a product-driven environment and connect technical decisions to user and business outcomes.
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You make pragmatic engineering trade-offs and know when a simpler solution is more valuable than unnecessary technical complexity.
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You collaborate effectively within and across teams, sharing context and helping others make better technical decisions.
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You are comfortable contributing across the stack when needed, while your strongest expertise is in backend engineering.
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You adapt as requirements and systems evolve, approaching change with curiosity and sound technical judgment.
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This role is based in Toronto
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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
Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs, podcasts, and audiobooks. Listen to your favorites online now.
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