Remote Backend Engineer

Description:

• The Personalization Team at Spotify seeks to enhance the understanding of music and podcasts to provide personalized recommendations to users.
• The team is composed of technologists, product insight experts, designers, and product managers located in Boston, New York, Stockholm, and London.
• The role involves collaborating with internal customers to design APIs and backend systems that meet scalability needs.
• Responsibilities include building backend systems that support applications, scaling distributed systems, and improving engineering practices.
• The Mimir squad within the Personalization Mission focuses on serving Spotify vector ecosystems at scale and owns the Flux Platform used for candidate generation and content representation.
• The position allows for collaboration with key stakeholders, architecture and development of Java services, leveraging data sets for music recommendations, and contributing to an agile team.
• The role includes leadership within the backend developer community and opportunities to work on personal projects during hack days and hack weeks.
• The position is remote within the North America region, with collaboration primarily in the Eastern Standard time zone.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have experience working with stakeholders to document and develop APIs and systems that meet their requirements.
• Experience in writing distributed, high-volume services and maintaining them in production is required.
• A strong interest in big data processing technologies is necessary.
• Candidates should thrive in an experimental and iterative work environment.
• A belief in the power of data for informed decision-making is essential.
• A deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms is required.
• A commitment to quality and the ability to deliver high-quality code is important.

Benefits:

• The position offers a competitive salary range of $160,091 to $228,702, plus equity.
• Benefits include health insurance, six months of paid parental leave, and a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Employees receive a monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave.
• The benefits and salary ranges may be subject to future modifications.