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Meter
Staff Backend Engineer - Prolific - Personalization
Spotify
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • New York
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💰 $194,000 - $277,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- 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 and podcasts better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual 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, original playlists like Discover Weekly and Daylist, and are at the forefront of new innovations like AI DJ and AI Playlists.
- Generative AI is transforming Spotify’s product capabilities and technical architecture. Generative recommender systems, agent frameworks, and LLMs present huge opportunities for our products to serve more user needs and use cases and unlock richer understanding of our content and users.
- This Staff Backend Engineer will focus on recommender systems backend and infra at the intersection of generative recommenders and foundational understanding of user taste across music and talk content formats. You will work closely with a cross-functional team to define and execute the backend technical strategy for the product area, serving the next generation of Spotify content and user representations and the technical architecture to support it.
- Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening to great recommendations every day.
- This is a staff-level individual contributor role, offering the opportunity to shape the direction of Home loading paradigms, page serving, content filtering and content storage.
Requirements
- You have extensive experience in designing system architectures that include machine learning models as key components in enabling the product experiences.
- You have a strong bias to action by building MVPs, prototypes and illustrating ideas through concise documents to drive initiatives forward.
- Team-first approach with developed techniques to ensure teams are happy, motivated, and productive
- You enjoy leading projects from start to finish working closely with your team and peers. You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity on high impact projects
- Accountable to senior tech leadership for meeting our product and technology objectives and managing expectations if those are at risk
- Demonstrated success leading technical initiatives and shaping strategic directions through cross-functional collaboration.
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management abilities; comfortable operating at the intersection of science and engineering
