Job Url: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/spotifyjobs/jobs/backend-engineer-personalization-united-states-remote Job Description: Spotify Website LinkedIn All Job Openings Spotify is a global audio streaming service company that offers its users access to a vast library of music and podcasts. Known for its focus on delivering personalized listening experiences, Spotify employs data scientists, engineers, and client partners across various global locations to continuously innovate and enhance its offerings. The company fosters a strong culture of diversity, equity, and impact, emphasizing belonging and inclusion in its workforce. Spotify is not only committed to shaping the future of audio entertainment but also to making a positive societal impact, with initiatives focused on social and environmental issues. 5001 - 10000 employees Founded 2008 📱 Media 👥 B2C 🛍️ eCommerce Backend Engineer - Personalization 17 hours ago 🗽 New York – Remote 💵 $125.6k - $179.4k / year ⏰ Full Time 🟡 Mid-level 🟠 Senior 🔙 Backend Engineer 🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor BigQuery Google Cloud Platform GRPC Java Apply Now Receive Emails with Similar Jobs Report problem 📋 Description • The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next on Spotify easier and more enjoyable for every listener. • We seek to understand the world of music, podcasts, and audiobooks better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual person and keep the world listening. • Every day, hundreds of millions of people all over the world use the products we build which include destinations like “Home” and “Search” as well as original playlists such as “Discover Weekly” and “Daily Mix.” • The Home Podcasts Squad is looking for an experienced Engineer II Backend Engineer to help drive podcast recommendations on the Home Page, Podcast Subfeed, Now Playing View, and other key Spotify distribution surfaces. • Home Podcasts is responsible for developing the ranking models that power podcast recommendations across these surfaces, as well as creating other podcast experiences for users on the Home Page, such as topic based shelves and cross-content recommendations. • We are looking for a Backend Engineer II to fill this role. • This person is going to be responsible for developing and scaling podcast recommendations across Home. • Recommending podcast content across Home and other surfaces is a complex problem, and requires strong collaboration skills across multiple Studios (Core-X, AIFoundations, Sessions, etc.). • It also requires an understanding of Home Systems, and the broader recommendations ecosystem at Spotify. • We are looking for someone who is curious, has strong analytical skills and good product understanding to help drive our products forward. 🎯 Requirements • You have 3+ years of working experience as a Backend Engineer working with Java. Additional tools and technologies such as gRPC, GCP, BigQuery, and Bigtable are a plus. • 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 written distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production. • You have an interest in big data processing technologies. • 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. 🏖️ Benefits • health insurance • six month paid parental leave • 401(k) retirement plan • a monthly meal allowance • 23 paid days off • 13 paid flexible holidays