Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Personalization at Scale

Spotify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking an experienced Architect to lead backend design for personalization at scale. You will architect, build, and evolve services that power recommendations across global users, balancing reliability, performance, and throughput.

This role emphasizes Java, distributed systems, and data-processing fundamentals, with hands-on ownership of system design and cloud tooling (GCP, BigQuery, Bigtable) and interfaces such as gRPC.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java and distributed, high-volume production systems.
• Strong in system design, data structures, algorithms, and large-scale data processing.
• Experience designing reliable, scalable backend services.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and evolve backend systems for personalization at Spotify scale.
• Design reliable, performant services for high-volume recommendation workloads.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

System design

Data structures

Algorithms

Large-scale data processing

Tools

gRPC

GCP

BigQuery

Bigtable

Job description

Spotify is seeking an experienced Architect to lead backend design for personalization at scale. You will architect, build, and evolve services that power recommendations across global users, balancing reliability, performance, and throughput.

This role emphasizes Java, distributed systems, and data-processing fundamentals, with hands-on ownership of system design and cloud tooling (GCP, BigQuery, Bigtable) and interfaces such as gRPC.