Senior Backend Engineer – Personalization

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and deploy backend services that enhance LLM-based music fulfillment experiences, providing users with more adaptive control over their listening preferences.

• Create and sustain the APIs and distributed systems that facilitate prompted playlist experiences, session generation, and personalized music products.

• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including user research, design, data science, product management, and ML engineering, to develop new product features that connect artists and fans in impactful and personalized ways.

• Act as a technical leader and a valued contributor within a self-managed, cross-functional agile team.

• Prototype innovative approaches and implement scalable solutions for hundreds of millions of active users.

• Contribute to the Spotify-wide backend developer community, influencing and shaping architecture across the organization.

• Advocate for best practices in backend system design, testing, and deployment throughout the company.

⛳️ Requirements

• You are a seasoned backend engineer who thrives on solving intricate real-world challenges in a dynamic, collaborative setting.

• You have a track record of working directly with stakeholders to understand, document, and create APIs and systems that fulfill their needs, promoting greater adoption and minimizing reliance on custom, one-off solutions.

• You possess experience in writing distributed, high-volume services and are proficient in deploying and maintaining them in a production environment.

• You have a profound understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.

• You are comfortable working with LLM-based systems and constructing the backend infrastructure that supports them.

• You have experience with large-scale distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Beam or Apache Spark.

• You have worked with cloud service providers such as GCP or AWS.

• You enjoy an environment where experimentation and rapid iteration are encouraged.

• You believe that data is the most powerful tool for making informed decisions.

• You prioritize quality and understand what it takes to deliver high-quality code.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Six months of paid parental leave

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Monthly meal allowance

• 23 paid days off

• 13 paid flexible holidays

• Paid sick leave