Senior Backend Engineer - Personalization

About the Team

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. Join us and you'll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them.

You'll join a team working at the intersection of backend engineering, music understanding, and user experience. We focus on building the backend systems that power agentic music fulfilment products from conversational playlist generation to adaptive listening experiences that give users more intuitive control over what they listen to.

This team collaborates closely with product, design, user research, data science, and machine learning to build personalized, high-impact features used by hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and ship backend services that power LLM-based music fulfilment experiences, giving users more adaptive control over their listening
• Build and maintain the APIs and distributed systems behind prompted playlist experiences, session generation, and agentic music products
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across user research, design, data science, product, and ML engineering to build new product features that connect artists and fans in personalized and meaningful ways
• Be a technical leader and valued contributor