Staff Backend Engineer - Home Foundations - Personalization

Spotify, the world's leading audio streaming platform, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their Home Personalization team. This role presents an exciting opportunity to shape the technical foundation of Spotify's Home page experience, working on critical systems that impact millions of users globally.

The position focuses on evolving core backend systems that power Spotify's Home page personalization, including Home Config and experimentation strategies. You'll be instrumental in redesigning legacy systems to meet modern needs, particularly in areas of gen recs, agents, and overall user experience enhancement. As a staff-level individual contributor, you'll have significant influence over Home loading paradigms, page serving, content filtering, and storage solutions.

The role demands a unique blend of technical expertise and leadership skills. You'll work closely with various teams including Experimentation Platform, Surface Insights, and CoreX, while building relationships with Staff+ engineers across different missions. Your responsibilities will range from creating sophisticated experimentation strategies to mentoring backend engineers and driving technical innovation.

Key technical aspects include working with machine learning models, experiment configurations, and statistical analysis. You'll need to be comfortable with concepts like confidence intervals, p-values, and various experiment setups. The position offers competitive compensation ($194,000 - $277,000 plus equity) and comprehensive benefits including health insurance, parental leave, and retirement plans.

This remote position allows flexibility within the North America region, operating in the EST time zone. Spotify emphasizes inclusivity and diversity, welcoming candidates from all backgrounds to contribute to their mission of unlocking human creativity through music and audio content. The role offers an unique opportunity to impact how millions of users experience music discovery and content personalization on one of the world's largest streaming platforms.