Spotify · 2 days ago
Backend Engineer
Boston, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$126K/yr - $179K/yrSpotify is a leading audio streaming subscription service that aims to enhance the listening experience through innovative technology. The Personalization team is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and develop scalable backend systems and APIs, leveraging data to improve user recommendations and enhance contextual storytelling.
AudioCloud ComputingMusicMusic StreamingPodcast
Responsibilities
Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to determine how to design backend systems and APIs to meet their scalable needs
Architect, develop, and operate Java services deployed to millions of users
Leverage Spotify’s many data sets to create awesome recommendations
Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems, improving the recommendation quality of users worldwide
Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company
Work on what you want during regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks
Qualification
Required
You have experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations
You have experience writing distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy, monitor, and keep them running in production, especially in the context of machine learning algorithms
You have interest in big data and machine learning systems
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 have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code
Benefits
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
Company
Spotify
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists.
Founded in 2006
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.09BKey Investors
ValueAct CapitalManhattan Venture Partners (MVP)Goldman Sachs Investment Partners
2023-02-10Post Ipo Equity
2021-02-25Post Ipo Debt
2018-04-03IPO
Leadership Team
Alex Norstrom
Co-CEO
Daniel Ek
Chairman & CEO
Recent News
2026-01-03
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