Backend Engineer, Music
Spotify · New York City, NY · Engineering
About this role
Spotify is hiring a mid-level Backend Engineer in the software engineering function based in New York City, NY. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, Scala, System Design. Compensation is listed at $132,949–$189,927 per year.
- Role
- Backend Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- New York City, NY
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Mar 26, 2026
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Job description
from Spotify careersWe are looking for a Backend focused engineer to join the OASIS team. OASIS builds and operates the systems that power promotion delivery and optimization within Discovery Mode. Our work ensures that promotional content isn’t just "surfaced", but is intelligently allocated by balancing complex, competing objectives across our entire ecosystem.
The team is distributed and highly collaborative, working closely with Personalization (PZN) to serve high-quality promotion signals. You’ll be part of a small, impactful group of engineers across data and machine learning, owning a core piece of infrastructure that enables promotion delivery at scale.
What You'll Do
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Own and evolve backend systems that deliver promotion scores to personalization systems (PZN)
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Build and maintain services that support promotion allocation and delivery at scale
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Collaborate closely with machine learning engineers and data engineers to improve signal quality and system performance
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Contribute to system design decisions that impact a critical part of Spotify’s discovery ecosystem
Improve reliability, scalability, and observability of existing infrastructure - Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration with personalization workflows
- Gradually expand your scope into adjacent areas such as data pipelines or ML-adjacent systems
Who You Are
- You have experience building backend systems using Java or similar languages
- You are comfortable working across systems and are interested in learning beyond pure backend (e.g., data or ML systems)
- You are driven to leverage AI to improve our systems, and eager to find practical ways to apply it
- You have experience working with or exposure to Scala, Python, or data/ML workflows
You are excited to grow into a T-shaped engineer with breadth across backend, data, and ML-adjacent domains
You care about ownership and are motivated to take responsibility for evolving critical systems - You collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including personalization and data partners
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North America region as long as we have a work location.
- This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.