Senior Backend Engineer - Personalization

Spotify Spotify · Consumer · New York, NY +1 · Personalization

Senior Backend Engineer for Spotify's Personalization team, focusing on building backend systems for recommendation and adaptive listening experiences used by hundreds of millions of listeners. The role involves collaboration with data science and machine learning teams to power personalized, high-impact features.

What you'd actually do

  1. Join us and you'll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them.
  2. We focus on building the backend systems that power agentic music fulfilment products from conversational playlist generation to adaptive listening experiences that give users more intuitive control over what they listen to.
  3. This team collaborates closely with product, design, user research, data science, and machine learning to build personalized, high-impact features used by hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide.

Skills

Required

  • backend engineering
  • recommendation systems
  • personalization

Nice to have

  • music understanding
  • user experience
  • agentic systems

What the JD emphasized

  • backend systems
  • personalized
  • recommendations
  • listeners

Other signals

  • recommendations
  • personalized features
  • backend systems