# Backend Engineer, Mimir, Personalization

**Company**: Spotify
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: $132,948–$189,927 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Spotify's Personalization Mission aims to connect fans and artists through relevant experiences. We're seeking a Backend Engineer to join our Personalization team, focusing on foundational backend infrastructure for recommendations.

### Responsibilities

- Build, maintain, and evolve backend systems supporting personalization and recommendations at Spotify scale.

- Develop infrastructure for efficient retrieval, ranking, and filtering of personalized content.

- Create platform capabilities for candidate generation and content/user representations.

- Design reliable, scalable services for high-volume recommendation workloads.

- Collaborate with engineers to understand needs and build reusable platform solutions.

- Improve system reliability, observability, maintainability, and performance.

- Participate in technical design discussions and architectural decisions.

### Requirements

- Professional experience building and operating backend systems in production.

- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, data-intensive applications, or large-scale service architectures.

- Comfortable with systems requiring reliability, low latency, and scalability.

- Ability to independently own projects and collaborate effectively.

- Interest in recommendation and personalization systems infrastructure; machine learning experience is a plus.

- Enjoy solving platform-level problems and building dependent systems.

- Care about writing maintainable code and continuous improvement.

### Location and Work Arrangements

- Remote work available within North America.

- Flexible working hours within the Eastern Standard time zone.

### Benefits

- Health insurance

- Six-month paid parental leave

- 401(k) retirement plan

- Monthly meal allowance

- 23 paid days off

- 13 paid flexible holidays

- Paid sick leave

## Skills

### Required
- backend systems
- distributed systems
- APIs
- data-intensive applications
- large-scale service architectures

### Nice to have
- machine learning

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