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Senior Backend Engineer - Personalization

100% Remote Full-time Open now

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.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with data experience to join our team. We build the fundamental platform to ingest, model, materialize high-scale, and serve at scale, event-driven user behavior data so Spotify can make personalized recommendations. Our platform tools support easy experimentation and productionisation. This is an outstanding opportunity to help develop and craft the way Spotify recommendations work. You’ll be able to grow your skills in engineering at scale, drive long term platform vision, and join a high-energy, positive team environment!

Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening to excellent recommendations every day.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop, deploy, and operate Java services that impact millions of users.
  • Work towards supporting machine learning projects powering the experience that suits each user individually.
  • Work with large-scale data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scio, BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform and Apache Beam.
  • Collaborate with other engineers, product managers and team members, tackling learning and leadership opportunities that will arise every single day.
  • Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code.
  • Share knowledge, promote standard methodologies, making your team the best version of itself through mentorship and constructive accountability.
  • Who You Are

  • You have worked extensively with backend services in Java at high scale.
  • You are familiar with the concepts of data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques.
  • You are familiar with distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Beam and Apache Spark.
  • You want to work on a team employing agile software development processes, data-driven development, and responsible experimentation.
  • You value opportunities to work collaboratively.
  • Where You’ll Be

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North Americas region as long as we have a work location.
  • This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration
  • Additional Information

    The United States base range for this position is $160,091 - $228,702 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include 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. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. These ranges may be modified in the future.

    Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

    At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

    Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.

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