Senior Backend/Data Hybrid Engineer - Personalization

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August 15

🗽 New York – Remote

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💵 $125.3k - $179k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Spotify

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Media • B2C • eCommerce

Spotify is a global audio streaming service company that offers its users access to a vast library of music and podcasts. Known for its focus on delivering personalized listening experiences, Spotify employs data scientists, engineers, and client partners across various global locations to continuously innovate and enhance its offerings. The company fosters a strong culture of diversity, equity, and impact, emphasizing belonging and inclusion in its workforce. Spotify is not only committed to shaping the future of audio entertainment but also to making a positive societal impact, with initiatives focused on social and environmental issues.

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2008

📱 Media

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

📋 Description

• On the Personalization Team, we seek to understand the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual person and keep the world listening. • Everyday, 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 \"Discover Weekly\" and “Daily Mix.” • We're a team of technologists, product insight experts, designers, and product managers in Boston, New York, Stockholm, and London. • As a Backend Engineer with data engineering experience, you will closely collaborate with our internal customers to determine the best API and backend system design to meet their scalability needs. • In this role, you’ll help craft our data strategy and build the systems that power smarter, more intuitive features across Spotify. • You'll bring your expertise in building scalable, reliable backend services while also applying modern data engineering practices—such as data quality, monitoring, and reproducibility—to support ML-powered recommendations and user-facing experiences. • Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music.

🎯 Requirements

• You have proven experience in backend and data engineering, including building scalable services, reliable data pipelines, and robust data platforms. • You possess a strong understanding of data systems, distributed systems, and cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., Google Cloud Platform), and are comfortable working with large datasets using tools such as SQL and BigQuery. • You collaborate effectively with ML, Data, and Backend teams, and understand the challenges of supporting ML models in production environments. • You take initiative to improve systems, mentor peers across disciplines, and drive technical decisions independently. • You prioritize code quality, data observability, and monitoring, and have experience working directly with stakeholders to build scalable, reusable APIs and systems. • You thrive in fast-paced environments that value experimentation, iteration, and continuous learning.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • six month paid parental leave • 401(k) retirement plan • monthly meal allowance • 23 paid days off • 13 paid flexible holidays