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Spotify

Backend Engineer, Music

Spotify
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1 day ago
New York, NY, USA
Entry Level / Mid Level
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve backend systems delivering promotion scores to personalization systems.
  • Build and maintain services for promotion allocation and delivery at scale.
  • Collaborate with machine learning and data engineers to improve signal quality.
  • Contribute to system design decisions impacting Spotify’s discovery ecosystem.
  • Improve reliability, scalability, and observability of existing infrastructure.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams for seamless integration with personalization workflows.
  • Expand scope into adjacent areas like data pipelines or ML-adjacent systems.

Requirements

  • Experience building backend systems using Java or similar languages.
  • Comfortable working across systems and interested in learning beyond pure backend.
  • Driven to leverage AI to improve systems and find practical applications.
  • Experience with Scala, Python, or data/ML workflows is a plus.
  • Excited to grow into a T-shaped engineer with breadth across backend, data, and ML domains.
  • Motivated to take responsibility for evolving critical systems.
  • Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, including personalization and data partners.

Benefits

  • Flexible work location within the North America region.
  • Collaboration within the Eastern Standard time zone.

Tech Stack

JavaPythonScala

Categories

AI & MLBackendData Engineering