Backend Engineer - Personalization - Remote

Overview

As a Backend Engineer in the Personalization Team, you will build innovative features that enhance music recommendations for millions of users, collaborating with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to deliver high-quality experiences.

In Short

• Collaborate with internal partners to design backend systems and APIs.
• Architect, develop, and operate Java services deployed to millions of users.
• Leverage Spotify’s datasets to build music recommendations.
• Be a technical leader in an autonomous, agile team.
• Identify and tackle ambitious problems for users worldwide.
• Lead the backend developer community at Spotify.
• Participate in hack days and hack weeks.

Requirements

• Experience developing backend services, APIs, and systems.
• Several years of experience as a Backend Engineer with Java.
• Familiarity with gRPC, GCP, BigQuery, Bigtable, and Kubernetes.
• Curiosity about big data processing technologies.
• Strong understanding of system design and algorithms.
• Commitment to shipping high-quality code.

Benefits

• Flexibility to work where you work best within North Americas.
• Collaboration within the Eastern Standard time zone.