Backend Engineer - Personalization

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. Everyday, hundreds of millions of people all over the world use the products we build, from Podcast Feeds to Discovery Weekly to DJ. We're a team of technologists, product insight experts, designers, and product managers in Boston, New York, Stockholm, and London.

Spotify is looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Search team. Our mission is to help users efficiently find and discover content. We are a highly collaborative team of engineers from multiple disciplines who are passionate about new challenges, product innovation, and building highly scalable distributed systems. We have experience in using new technologies to quickly prototype experiences as well as in building systems that serve content at scale for hundreds of millions of users. 

• 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.

• 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.

• This role is based in our New York office.
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

The United States base range for this position is $ 102,158 - $ 145,941, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, a monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. 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.