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# Remote Backend Engineer - Personalization

- **Company:** Spotify
- **Location:** Gloucester, UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Structures, Java Web Services, Backend
- **Published:** June 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/remote-backend-engineer-personalization-gloucester-gloucestershire/2843618703-2/

## About the Role

* You have experience writing distributed, high-volume Java services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production.
 * You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions.
 * You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
 * You love working in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly.
 * You believe data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making.
 * You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code.

## Description

* Design, develop, and deliver robust and scalable backend systems and APIs.
 * Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems and build new product features.
 * Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code, adhering to coding best practices.
 * Participate in the improvement of our software development standards and practices.
 * Stay up-to-date with emerging backend technologies and best practices.
 * Be a member of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company.


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