Senior Backend Engineer – Podcast

🕒 July 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $164.4k - $234.9k / 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

• Lead the design and evolution of backend services that generate, distribute, and support personalized podcast episodes at scale • Help transform MVPs and prototypes into reliable production systems with clear APIs, durable data flows, strong observability, and thoughtful operational patterns • Shape the technical direction for agentic workflows and help establish quality and reliability standards for AI-generated content systems • Build and improve creator merchandising features in Spotify for Creators, including podcast chapters, transcripts, previews, clips, guests, topics, thumbnails, and more • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and cross-functional stakeholders across Spotify missions to align on requirements and deliver integrated experiences • Partner closely with product and design to iterate on ideas, unblock technical exploration, and make pragmatic tradeoffs that balance experimentation with long-term maintainability • Mentor engineers across the team and help raise the quality of technical design discussions, RFCs, reviews, and operational practices • Contribute to a culture of experimentation, ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems using Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, or similar languages • Experienced with distributed systems concepts including asynchronous processing, queues/pub-sub systems, idempotency, service-to-service APIs, storage design, failure handling, and observability • Hands-on experience with, or strong curiosity about, LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows • Know how to navigate ambiguity while maintaining strong engineering discipline and production reliability • Care deeply about the user experience for creators and listeners, not just the technical implementation • Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across teams • Experience mentoring engineers and helping teams improve engineering quality and operational maturity • Care about building inclusive, maintainable systems and collaborative team environments

🏖️ Benefits

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