Remote Backend Engineer - Personalization

The Personalization team makes decisions about 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.
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our distributed team across Europe of hardworking engineers that are passionate about connecting new and emerging creators with users via recommendation algorithms. As an integral part of the squad, you will collaborate with engineers, research scientists and data scientists in prototyping and productizing state-of-the-art ML that serves at scale for hundreds of millions of users.

What You'll Do

    • 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.
    • Be a member of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company.

Who You Are

    • You have experience writing distributed, high-volume Java services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production.
    • You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions.
    • You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
    • You love working in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly.
    • You believe data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making.
    • You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code.

Where You'll Be

    • This role is based in London.
    • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
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