Backend Engineer, Mimir, Personalization at Spotify | NY, US | Rezi

Backend Engineer, Mimir, Personalization at Spotify

Backend Engineer, Mimir, Personalization

Spotify · NY, US

1 weeks ago

Backend Engineer, Mimir, Personalization

Spotify · NY, US

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About the Role

Spotify’s Personalization Mission connects fans and artists through relevant and meaningful experiences. This role builds foundational backend infrastructure for recommendations, powering personalized experiences for millions of listeners globally.

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.
  • Build platform capabilities for candidate generation and representations of content and users.
  • Design reliable, scalable, and performant services for high-volume recommendation workloads.
  • Partner with engineers across Spotify to build reusable platform solutions.
  • Improve the reliability, observability, maintainability, and operational performance of owned systems.
  • Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to 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 working with systems where reliability, latency, and scalability are critical.
  • Ability to independently own engineering projects while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Interest in the infrastructure behind recommendation and personalization systems.
  • Enjoyment in solving platform-level problems and building systems for other engineering teams.
  • Commitment to writing maintainable code, making thoughtful technical decisions, and continuously improving production systems.

Skills

  • Backend systems
  • Distributed systems
  • APIs
  • Data-intensive applications
  • Large-scale service architectures
  • Reliability
  • Latency
  • Scalability
  • Platform-level problems
  • Maintainable code

Location

  • North America region

Work Type

  • Remote
  • Office
  • Hybrid

Salary/Compensations

  • $132,948–$189,927 USD

Benefits

  • Equity
  • 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

About the Company

  • Spotify is an equal opportunity employer.
  • Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace.
  • We are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone.
  • We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need.

Equal Opportunity

  • You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones.
  • The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking!
  • So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background.
  • It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.