Senior Backend Engineer, Personalization

The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Blend to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them.
The team is a tight-knit group of T-Shaped engineers that think deeply about music recommendations and new experiences for our hundreds of millions of users. 
In this role, you'll take ownership of small to medium-sized backend projects, contribute to the delivery of outstanding software, and work collaboratively across teams to ensure a smooth and efficient development process. You'll also have the opportunity to play a key role in crafting our coding practices and methodologies, encouraging a culture of continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

• Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate Java services that serve millions of users
• Learn about how we build and distribute personalized playlists
• Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company
• Be a technical leader within the team you work with and within Spotify in general
• Coordinate technical projects across teams within Spotify
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems for delivering various media worldwide
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
• Hack on what you want during regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks

Who You Are

• You are an experienced technical leader
• You have 5+ years of experience in designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java
• You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
• You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code
• You can quickly scope the size and feasibility of projects of all sizes

Where You'll Be

• For this role, you can be within the EST time zone with a strong preference to be in New York or Boston

The United States base range for this position is $156,275-$223,250, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process.  Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. These ranges may be modified in the future.