Hiring: Backend Engineer, Mimir, Personalization Company: Spotify Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 22:56:37 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords: Backend Engineering, Distributed Systems, APIs, Data-Intensive Applications, Large-Scale Service Architectures, Recommendation Systems, Personalization, Candidate Generation, Content & User Representations, Ranking & Filtering, Platform Infrastructure, Reliability, Observability, Scalability, Latency, Maintainability, Production Systems Experience: - 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 - Able to independently own engineering projects while collaborating effectively with engineers across teams - Prior machine learning experience is helpful but not required Required Skills: - Build, maintain, and evolve backend systems supporting personalization and recommendations at scale - Develop infrastructure for 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 - Improve reliability, observability, maintainability, and operational performance of owned systems - Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions - Write maintainable code and make thoughtful technical decisions Qualifications: - Interest in the infrastructure behind recommendation and personalization systems - Enjoy solving platform-level problems and building systems other engineering teams depend on - Care about continuously improving production systems - Effective collaboration with engineers and teams across the organization - Open to working anywhere in the North America region where Spotify has a work location, within Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration Compensation: - Base range: $132,948–$189,927 USD, plus equity - Benefits include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!