Spotify Home PZN is looking to solve the problem of shaping the technical vision and architecture of core backend systems that power the Spotify Home page, adapting existing systems to meet new user experience needs, and improving the experimentation strategy for online evaluations.
Requirements
- You have extensive experience in designing system architectures that include machine learning models as key components in enabling the product experiences.
- You’re comfortable debugging experiment configurations from an engineering enablement and experimental design perspective while also able to lean into statistical concepts such as confidence intervals, p-values and power.
- You have familiarity with different types of experiment setups: isolated vs. overlapping experiments, interaction effects, and holdout strategies
- You’re able to understand end to end system architectures that include machine learning models to enable the larger product
- You have a strong bias to action by building MVPs, prototypes and illustrating ideas through concise documents to drive initiatives forward.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with Experimentation Platform, Surface Insights, CoreX and Home PZN teams to create an experimentation strategy that takes Home’s online evaluation practices to the next level.
- Create Home Experimentation strategies to ensure trustworthy online evaluations for our stakeholders (all teams that run tests on home)
- Innovate in Home’s dynamic configuration methodology for both experiment variants and home baseline product experience.
- Support all teams within Home Foundations – Nexus, Home Content Journey and HEAT – in their system and backend engineering needs.
- Identify tooling that can dramatically improve home recs explainability, debugging and reliability.
- Mentor backend engineers and influence technical strategy by setting high standards in methodology, reproducibility, and collaboration.
- Prototype new approaches and productionize solutions for Home experiences.
Other
- You’re a current Staff Engineer who has been operating at this level for 1+ years, consistently taking on responsibilities aligned with the role
- Accountable to senior tech leadership for meeting our product and technology objectives and managing expectations if those are at risk
- Demonstrated success leading technical initiatives and shaping strategic directions through cross-functional collaboration.
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management abilities; comfortable operating at the intersection of science and engineering.
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North America region as long as we have a work location.
