Spotify

Senior Backend Engineer - Advertising

New York, NY · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$164k-$235kDetected 16 days ago

JavaData StructuresA/B Testing

About the role

We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers.
This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.
This squad is responsible for ranking ads, conducting the auction, enforcing floor prices, applying blacklist filters, and honoring competitive separation.

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.
Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and data scientists to identify and solve challenging problems.
We build and maintain services that process millions of ad decisions per second.
You will collaborate with our cross-functional teams to ideate, develop, and own complex technical solutions on our ad ranking and auction platforms.
As someone who shares our passion for building reliable, high-scale ad infrastructure, you'll have a direct impact on how advertisers reach audiences on Spotify.

You have 4+ years of working experience as a Backend Engineer.
You have worked with Java, and ideally Scala.
You have written distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production.
You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code.
You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what's playing in your headphones.

Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video.
We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Ad Serving squad.
We sit at a critical intersection between advertiser delivery goals, business logic, platform revenue, and ad experience quality.
We are looking for someone who is motivated by user and business problems as much as they are by technical problems.

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