Senior Backend Engineer - Personalization ID - 15060

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

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.

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