Description:

The Personalization team aims to understand the audio world to make exceptional recommendations to individual users and enhance their listening experience.
Setadel leads the Spotify Sessions Platform (SSP), which powers personalized playlist experiences for hundreds of millions of users.
The team is seeking an expert senior backend engineer to help build robust, reliable personalized experiences efficiently while ensuring outstanding observability, monitoring, and system resilience.
The role involves building, evolving, and maintaining backend systems that support personalized experiences at scale and improving engineering practices.
The engineer's work will directly impact teams across Spotify and enhance the personalized experiences of millions of listeners daily.

Requirements:

Candidates must care about quality and standards and understand the importance of shipping high-quality code.
The ability to quickly scope the size and feasibility of projects of all sizes is essential.
Experience in collaborating with others to understand, document, and develop APIs and systems to meet requirements is required, with a focus on increasing adoption and reducing reliance on custom implementations.
A strong product approach is necessary, considering the impact of changes on all users and a passion for delivering high-quality products that improve user lives.
Candidates should have experience writing distributed, high-volume Java services and know how to deploy and maintain them in production.
A deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms is required to design and implement pragmatic solutions.
Excellent debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills are necessary, along with the ability to communicate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.

The position offers health insurance to support employee well-being.
Employees receive six months of paid parental leave to support family needs.
A 401(k) retirement plan is available to help employees save for the future.
A monthly meal allowance is provided to enhance work-life balance.
Employees enjoy 23 paid days off to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
There are 13 paid flexible holidays to accommodate personal and cultural observances.
Paid sick leave is available to ensure employees can take care of their health without financial worry.