Senior Backend Engineer – Personalization

🕒 May 6

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $160.1k - $228.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Spotify

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2008

📱 Media

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

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.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and ship backend services that power LLM-based music fulfilment experiences, giving users more adaptive control over their listening • Build and maintain the APIs and distributed systems behind prompted playlist experiences, session generation, and agentic music products • Collaborate with cross-functional partners across user research, design, data science, product, and ML engineering to build new product features that connect artists and fans in personalized and meaningful ways • Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team • Prototype new approaches and productionize solutions at scale for hundreds of millions of active users • Contribute to the Spotify-wide backend developer community, affecting and driving architecture across the company • Promote best practices in backend system design, testing, and deployment across the organization

🎯 Requirements

• You are an experienced backend engineer who enjoys solving complex real-world problems in a fast-paced, collaborative environment • 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 and keep them running in production • You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms • You are comfortable working with LLM-based systems and building the backend infrastructure that supports them • You have experience with large-scale distributed data processing tools such as Apache Beam or Apache Spark • You have worked with cloud platforms like GCP or AWS • 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 care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code

🏖️ Benefits

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