Senior Backend Engineer, Home Surfaces

Spotify; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and evolve the backend infrastructure and pipelines that power our podcast recommendations and related experiences for millions of listeners worldwide. You will design scalable systems to identify, retrieve, rank, and filter podcast content, enabling personalized experiences across home surfaces and feeds.

Join a cross-functional team focused on reliability, performance, and data-driven innovation to help listeners discover podcasts they’ll

Job description

The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Blend to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them.

The Home Podcasts Squad builds the systems that power podcast recommendations across some of Spotify’s most important distribution surfaces, including Home, the Podcast Subfeed, and the Now Playing view. We develop the ranking systems behind these recommendations and create experiences such as topic-based shelves and cross-content recommendations that help listeners discover podcasts they'll love.

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build and evolve the backend infrastructure and pipelines that make these experiences possible. You’ll work on systems that identify, retrieve, rank, and filter relevant podcast content to create personalized experiences for millions of listeners around the world.