Senior Backend Engineer - Personalization
SpotifyPosted 5/2/2025
Senior Backend Engineer - Personalization
Spotify
Job Location
BrazilCanadaChileColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGrenadaJamaicaAntigua and BarbudaBahamasBarbadosBelizeArgentinaPanamaParaguayPeruSaint LuciaNicaraguaSurinameVenezuela (Bolivarian Republic)Dominican RepublicBoliviaGuatemalaMexicoUnited States of AmericaUruguaySaint Kitts and NevisTrinidad and TobagoSaint Vincent and GrenadinesGuyanaHaitiHonduras
Salary Range
160k - 229k USD / YEAR
Job Summary
The Personalization team at Spotify seeks an expert senior backend engineer to join their team, focusing on building robust, reliable personalized experiences quickly and efficiently. The role involves architecting, developing, and delivering scalable systems and APIs that power internal customers and deliver content to millions of listeners worldwide. Collaborative work with specialists, teams, and product owners is expected, along with a strong focus on quality, standards, and system design. This position offers flexibility in working location within the North American region, competitive compensation, and benefits such as health insurance, paid parental leave, and equity in a fast-growing company.
Job Description
The Personalization team seeks to understand the audio world better than anyone else so that we can make phenomenal recommendations to every individual person and keep the world listening. Every day, hundreds of millions of people all over the world use the products we build, from Podcast Feeds to Discover Weekly to DJ and AI Playlists.
Setadel is the team that leads the Spotify Sessions Platform (SSP) which powers those personalized playlist experiences for 100s of millions of users.
We are looking for an expert senior backend engineer to join the team. Our mission is to be platform leaders and help teams build robust, reliable personalized experiences quickly and efficiently while providing outstanding observability, monitoring, and system resilience.
We are a highly efficient and collaborative team of hard-working and experienced engineers, at the center of many personalization efforts. You will build, evolve and maintain the backend systems that power personalized experiences at scale and continuously improve our engineering practices. Above all, your work will have a direct impact on teams across Spotify, and 100s of millions of listeners' personalized experiences every day.
What You'll Do
- Architect, develop, and deliver robust and scalable systems and APIs that serve our internal customers and deliver content to 100s of millions of listeners worldwide.
- Collaborate with other specialists, teams, and product owners to identify and solve ambitious problems and build new product features.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code, adhering to coding best practices.
- Continue to develop, maintain and implement platform standards that ensure SSP continues to deliver outstanding performance.
- Participate in the improvement of our software development standards and practices.
Who You Are
- You care about quality and standards, and know what it means to ship high-quality code.
- You can quickly scope the size and feasibility of projects of all sizes.
- You have experience working directly with collaborators to understand, document and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations.
- You have a strong product approach and consider the impact of your changes on everyone using your product. You are passionate about delivering high quality products that improve user’s lives.
- You have experience writing distributed, high-volume Java services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production.
- You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms and understand how to use those skills to design and implement pragmatic solutions.
- You have excellent debugging, analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North American region as long as we have a work location.
- This team operates within the EST time zone for collaboration.
The United States base range for this position is $160,091 - $228,702 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.
