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Spotify

Backend Engineer, Personalization

Spotify

. Build, maintain, and evolve backend systems supporting personalization and recommendations at Spotify scale .

Posted 9/15/2026full-timeRemote • New York • United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating backend systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance. Proficient in developing infrastructure for personalized content retrieval and ranking, while collaborating effectively across teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Backend Systems DevelopmentDistributed SystemsAPIsData-Intensive ApplicationsTechnical Design and Architecture

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Hard Skills
Backend SystemsDistributed SystemsAPIsData-Intensive ApplicationsScalable ServicesMaintainable CodeTechnical Decision MakingRecommendation SystemsPersonalization Systems
Soft Skills
CollaborationProblem SolvingOwnership
Industry Keywords
PersonalizationRecommendationsHigh-Volume WorkloadsObservabilityOperational Performance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build, maintain, and evolve backend systems supporting personalization and recommendations at Spotify scale
  • Develop infrastructure enabling efficient retrieval, ranking, and filtering of personalized content
  • Build platform capabilities supporting candidate generation and representations of content and users
  • Design reliable, scalable, and performant services for high-volume recommendation workloads
  • Partner with engineers and teams across Spotify to understand needs and build reusable platform solutions
  • Improve reliability, observability, maintainability, and operational performance of owned systems
  • Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions
  • Build technology powering personalized experiences and helping listeners discover and engage with content

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 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 matter
  • Ability to independently own engineering projects while collaborating effectively with engineers across teams
  • Interest in infrastructure behind recommendation and personalization systems; prior machine learning experience helpful but not required
  • Enjoys solving platform-level problems and building systems that other engineering teams depend on
  • Commitment to writing maintainable code, making thoughtful technical decisions, and continuously improving production systems
  • Work location in the North America region where Spotify has a work location
  • Ability to work within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Accessible recruitment process and reasonable accommodations during the interview process
  • Work From Anywhere options
  • Flexible choice of work mode, including office or home working