Arbetsbeskrivning

The Personalization (PZN) 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 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 Made For You, Discover Weekly and Daily Mix.

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 build and improve our storytelling capabilities.

What You’ll Do

● Design, build, evaluate, and ship LLM based solutions that tell stories about our content and our users.

● Collaborate with cross functional teams spanning user research, design, data science, product management, and engineering to build new product features that advance our mission to connect artists and fans in personalized and useful ways

● Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team

● Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company

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 and keep them running in production

● 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

● You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code