Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Spotify is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Advertising Product & Technology team. The role involves building and maintaining services that process millions of ad decisions per second, focusing on real-time ad auction and ranking systems.
Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, and operate Java services that power real-time ad auction and ranking decisions at massive scale
- Build and maintain the services that conduct scoring, filtering, and selecting winning ads across slot types, formats, and multiple demand sources
- Design and evolve auction mechanics including second-price logic, floor price enforcement, bid shading, and guaranteed delivery prioritization
- Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
- Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and data scientists to identify and solve challenging problems
Skills
- 4+ years of working experience as a Backend Engineer
- Experience with Java, and ideally Scala
- Experience building low-latency, high-throughput systems where milliseconds matter — ad serving, real-time bidding, auction systems, or similar domains are a plus
- Written distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production
- Ability to work in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly
- Belief that data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making
- Deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
- Care about quality and know what it means to ship high quality code
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Six month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
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