Backend Engineer - Personalization - Remote

Overview

On the Personalization Team, we seek to understand the audio world better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual person and keep the world listening. Every day, hundreds of millions of people all over the world use the products we build, from Podcast Feeds to Discovery Weekly to DJ.

In Short

• Design, develop, and deliver robust and scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems and build new product features.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code, adhering to coding best practices.
• Participate in the improvement of our software development standards and practices.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging backend technologies and best practices.

Requirements

• You have experience writing distributed, high-volume Java services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production.
• You feel comfortable reading and writing Python code.
• You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions.
• You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
• 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.
• You have practical experience with Kubernetes.
• You have practical experience managing and operating scalable search engines like ElasticSearch or Vespa.

Benefits

• Flexible work location within the EMEA region.
• Collaboration within the Central Eastern time zone.