On the Personalization Team at Spotify, the business problem is to understand the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else to make excellent recommendations to every individual person and keep the world listening. The team builds products like 'Home' and 'Search' and original playlists, impacting hundreds of millions of users globally.
Requirements
- You have experience working directly with partners to understand, document and develop backend services, APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations
- You have several years working experience as a Backend Engineer developing and operating Java services at scale.
- Additional tools and technologies such as gRPC, GCP, BigQuery, Bigtable and Kubernetes are a plus
- You have curiosity about big data processing technologies such as Apache Beam, Dataflow, and Flyte
- 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 have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with key internal partners to design backend systems and APIs and orchestrate data pipelines to meet needs at scale
- Architect, develop, and operate Java services deployed to millions of users
- Leverage Spotify’s many datasets to build amazing music recommendations
- Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, multi-functional agile team
- Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and tackle ambitious problems, crafting outstanding music sessions for users worldwide
- Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and drive our architecture across the company
- Work on what you want during regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks
Other
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code
- 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.
- Spotify is an equal opportunity employer.
- At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone.
