Backend Engineer, Personalization & Recommendations (Remote)

Spotify; United States; Remote; USD 133,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a backend-focused engineer to build, maintain, and evolve systems that power personalization and recommendations at Spotify scale. You will work on infrastructure enabling efficient retrieval, ranking, and filtering of personalized content, and on platform capabilities for candidate generation and representations of content and users.

The role supports a distributed workforce in North America with remote and office options, and collaboration within EST time zones.

Qualifications

• 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 where reliability, latency, and scalability matter.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and evolve backend systems that support personalization and recommendations at Spotify scale.
• Develop infrastructure enabling efficient retrieval, ranking, and filtering of personalized content.
• Build platform capabilities for candidate generation and representations of content and users.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

APIs

Data-intensive applications

Latency and scalability

Job description

Spotify is seeking a backend-focused engineer to build, maintain, and evolve systems that power personalization and recommendations at Spotify scale. You will work on infrastructure enabling efficient retrieval, ranking, and filtering of personalized content, and on platform capabilities for candidate generation and representations of content and users.

The role supports a distributed workforce in North America with remote and office options, and collaboration within EST time zones.