Backend Engineer

Spotify•Boston, MA

9d•Remote

About The Position

The Personalization (PZN) team makes deciding what to play next on Spotify easier and more enjoyable for every listener. We seek to understand the world of music, podcasts and audiobooks better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual and keep the world listening. Every day, hundreds of millions of people all over the world use the products we build which include destinations like Home and Search as well as original playlists such as Made For You, Discover Weekly and Daily Mix. The Context team’s mission is to own and innovate on contextual story telling to enhance the listening experience. Using a mixture of human written content and LLMs, we strive to provide depth and connection for all listeners. We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team to help us build and scale these capabilities.

Requirements

You have experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations
You have experience writing distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy, monitor, and keep them running in production, especially in the context of machine learning algorithms
You have interest in big data and machine learning systems
You love working in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly
You believe data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making
You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code

Responsibilities

Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to determine how to design backend systems and APIs to meet their scalable needs
Architect, develop, and operate Java services deployed to millions of users
Leverage Spotify’s many data sets to create awesome recommendations
Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems, improving the recommendation quality of users worldwide
Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company
Work on what you want during regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks