Backend Engineer, Music

3 hours, 3 minutes ago
Full-time
Mid Level
Software Development
Spotify

Spotify

Spotify is a leading global audio streaming service empowering artists and inspiring fans worldwide with over 70 million tracks. It has 365 million users, including 165 million subscribers, across 178 markets.

Media
Founded 2006

Description

  • Own and evolve backend systems that deliver promotion scores to personalization systems (PZN).
  • Build and maintain services that support promotion allocation and delivery at scale.
  • Collaborate closely with machine learning and data engineers to improve signal quality and system performance.
  • Contribute to system design decisions that impact Spotify’s discovery and promotion delivery ecosystem.
  • Improve reliability, scalability, and observability of existing infrastructure.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration with personalization workflows.
  • Gradually expand scope into adjacent areas such as data pipelines or ML-adjacent systems.
  • Operate within a distributed, collaborative team and take ownership of a core piece of infrastructure enabling promotion delivery at scale.

Requirements

  • Experience building backend systems using Java or similar languages.
  • Experience with or exposure to Scala, Python, or data/ML workflows.
  • Comfortable working across systems and interested in learning beyond pure backend (e.g., data or ML systems).
  • Driven to leverage AI to improve systems and identify practical, applied solutions.
  • Demonstrated ownership mindset and motivation to evolve critical systems.
  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including personalization and data partners.
  • Ability to work within the North America region and collaborate in the Eastern Standard Time (EST) zone.
  • Willingness to grow into a T-shaped engineer with breadth across backend, data, and ML-adjacent domains.
  • Experience working with personalization systems or serving promotion signals (preferred).

Benefits

  • United States base compensation range $132,949–$189,927 (USD, posted).
  • Flexible work location within North America with collaboration in the Eastern Standard Time zone.
  • Health insurance.
  • Six months paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Monthly meal allowance.
  • 23 paid days off (PTO).
  • Paid sick leave.

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