Backend Engineer, Personalization

Spotify
New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 132,948 - 189,927 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Independent ownership","Collaboration","Maintainability focus","Technical decision-making","Systems thinking"]

Build and evolve backend infrastructure that powers Spotify personalization and recommendations for millions of listeners. You’ll design reliable, scalable services for content and user representations, candidate generation, and centralized filtering. Work on platform-level problems in distributed systems where reliability, latency, and scalability matter, while improving observability, maintainability, and operational performance across the systems your team owns.

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Spotify
3 days ago

Backend Engineer, Personalization

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Job Summary

Build and evolve backend infrastructure that powers Spotify personalization and recommendations for millions of listeners. You’ll design reliable, scalable services for content and user representations, candidate generation, and centralized filtering. Work on platform-level problems in distributed systems where reliability, latency, and scalability matter, while improving observability, maintainability, and operational performance across the systems your team owns.
Location: New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build, maintain, and evolve backend systems that support personalization and recommendations at Spotify scale.
  • •Develop infrastructure to enable efficient retrieval, ranking, and filtering of personalized content.
  • •Build platform capabilities for candidate generation and representations of content and users.
  • •Design reliable, scalable, and performant services for high-volume recommendation workloads.
  • •Partner across Spotify teams and improve reliability, observability, maintainability, and operational performance of owned systems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 132,948 - 189,927 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceParental Leave401kMeal AllowancePaid LeavePaid Holidays

Key Requirements

  • •Professional experience building and operating backend systems in production.
  • •Experience with distributed systems, APIs, data-intensive applications, or large-scale service architectures.
  • •Comfort working where reliability, latency, and scalability are critical.
  • •Ability to independently own engineering projects while collaborating effectively across teams.
  • •Interest in recommendation/personalization infrastructure; machine learning experience helpful but not required.
Experience:RecommendationsPersonalizationDistributed systems
Skills:Independent ownershipCollaborationMaintainability focusTechnical decision-makingSystems thinking

Company Brief

Spotify
Provides a music, podcast and audio streaming service offering on-demand access to millions of tracks and podcasts, personalized recommendations, and advertising and subscription-based tiers for listeners and creators worldwide.
Industry: Streaming Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Founded: 2006
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