Backend Engineer - Personalization

Spotify

New York, NY

Full Time

Mid Level

102k-146k

20 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

On the Personalization Team, we seek to understand the audio world better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual person and keep the world listening. Everyday, hundreds of millions of people all over the world use the products we build, from Podcast Feeds to Discovery Weekly to DJ. We're a team of technologists, product insight experts, designers, and product managers in Boston, New York, Stockholm, and London. Spotify is looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Search team. Our mission is to help users efficiently find and discover content. We are a highly collaborative team of engineers from multiple disciplines who are passionate about new challenges, product innovation, and building highly scalable distributed systems. We have experience in using new technologies to quickly prototype experiences as well as in building systems that serve content at scale for hundreds of millions of users.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and deliver robust and scalable backend systems and APIs.
Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems and build new product features.
Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code, adhering to coding best practices.
Participate in the improvement of our software development standards and practices.
Stay up-to-date with emerging backend technologies and best practices.

Requirements

Experience writing distributed, high-volume Java services and knowledge of how to deploy and keep them running in production.
Comfort with reading and writing Python code.
Good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to communicate ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience with Kubernetes.
Practical experience managing and operating scalable search engines like ElasticSearch or Vespa.

Nice to Have

Experience with deploying and maintaining scalable search engines such as ElasticSearch or Vespa.

Qualifications

Experience with Java and Python programming languages.
Practical experience managing scalable search engines.
Experience with Kubernetes.

Benefits & Perks

Health insurance
Six month paid parental leave
401(k) retirement plan
Monthly meal allowance
23 paid days off
13 paid flexible holidays

Working at Spotify

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. We are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We value diversity, perspectives, and backgrounds, believing that our differences help us innovate and thrive. We support accommodations during the interview process and are committed to creating a supportive, forward-thinking workplace.

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