The Podcast Mission develops strategies and builds products that serve creators and listeners interested in podcast and video content. As the #1 podcast platform in the world, we look to continue improving and scaling the experience of podcasts on Spotify. We build and maintain products like Spotify for Podcasters, Megaphone, and Chartable, and are always eager to provide creators with easy ways to increase their audiences on Spotify and give them new innovative means for monetization.
Midas owns the Spotify for Creators systems that help podcast creators control and enrich how their content appears on Spotify. We build creator-facing surfaces and backend services for merchandising asset features like transcripts, chapters, clips, previews, and more - giving creators the ability to manage how these assets are presented across Spotify.
Our scope is expanding into a new generation of personalized podcast experiences. We recently introduced a system that generates brief, personalized podcast episodes for listeners based on their context and the world around them. As part of the team, you’ll help evolve these early generated-content experiences into durable, production-grade systems that can scale to millions of listeners and creators worldwide.
What You'll Do
- Lead the design and evolution of backend services that generate, distribute, and support personalized podcast episodes at scale
- Help transform MVPs and prototypes into reliable production systems with clear APIs, durable data flows, strong observability, and thoughtful operational patterns
- Shape the technical direction for agentic workflows and help establish quality and reliability standards for AI-generated content systems
- Build and improve creator merchandising features in Spotify for Creators, including podcast chapters, transcripts, previews, clips, guests, topics, thumbnails, and more
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and cross-functional stakeholders across Spotify missions to align on requirements and deliver integrated experiences
- Partner closely with product and design to iterate on ideas, unblock technical exploration, and make pragmatic tradeoffs that balance experimentation with long-term maintainability
- Mentor engineers across the team and help raise the quality of technical design discussions, RFCs, reviews, and operational practices
- Contribute to a culture of experimentation, ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning
Who You Are
- You have 5+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems using Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, or similar languages
- You are experienced with distributed systems concepts including asynchronous processing, queues/pub-sub systems, idempotency, service-to-service APIs, storage design, failure handling, and observability
- You have hands-on experience with, or strong curiosity about, LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows
- You know how to navigate ambiguity while maintaining strong engineering discipline and production reliability
- You care deeply about the user experience for creators and listeners, not just the technical implementation
- You communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across teams
- You have experience mentoring engineers and helping teams improve engineering quality and operational maturity
- You care about building inclusive, maintainable systems and collaborative team environments
Bonus Points
- Experience with Python, prompt iteration and evaluation, tool use, or production AI workflows
- Experience with GCP, GKE, Cloud SQL/Postgres, BigQuery, Bigtable, GCS, or Grafana
- Experience productionizing research projects, prototypes, or experimental systems
- Familiarity with podcast ecosystems, creator tooling, merchandising assets, or personalization systems
- Experience working on content quality, recommendation, or generated media systems
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North Americas region as long as we have a work location.
- This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
Skills Required
- 5+ years building and operating production backend systems using Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, or similar languages
- Experience with distributed systems concepts: asynchronous processing, queues/pub-sub systems, idempotency, service-to-service APIs, storage design, failure handling, and observability
- Hands-on experience with, or strong curiosity about, LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering quality and operational maturity
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience with Python, prompt iteration and evaluation, tool use, or production AI workflows
- Experience with GCP, GKE, Cloud SQL/Postgres, BigQuery, Bigtable, GCS, or Grafana
- Experience productionizing research projects, prototypes, or experimental systems
- Familiarity with podcast ecosystems, creator tooling, merchandising assets, or personalization systems
- Experience working on content quality, recommendation, or generated media systems
Spotify Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Spotify and has not been reviewed or approved by Spotify.
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Flexible Benefits — Employees consistently praise the total compensation package beyond base salary, highlighting a mix of RSUs, cash incentives, and stipends alongside core pay. The package is described as flexible and customizable through equity choices (e.g., RSUs, options, cash) that can be tailored for long-term wealth building.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are repeatedly highlighted as substantial, including generous vacation, paid sick days, volunteer time, and flexible holidays. These policies are framed as a meaningful part of the overall rewards experience beyond salary.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, and mental health support. Additional employer contributions to HSAs are cited as strengthening the overall health and wellness value proposition.
Spotify Insights
What We Do
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