Who you are

• 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-makingYou 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

What the job involves

• The Context team’s mission is to own and innovate on contextual story telling to enhance the listening experience
• Using a mixture of human written content and LLMs, we strive to provide depth and connection for all listeners
• We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team to help us build and scale these capabilities
• You'll collaborate with key internal stakeholders to determine how to design backend systems and APIs to meet their scalable needsArchitect, develop, and operate Java services deployed to millions of users
• Leverage Spotify’s many data sets to create awesome recommendationsBe 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

Benefits

• Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
• Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
• Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
• All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
• Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs