Backend Engineer, Mimir, Personalization

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