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Backend Engineer

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Spotify seeks a Backend Engineer in New York to build and operate large-scale backend systems for personalization and recommendations. The role involves developing infrastructure for content retrieval, ranking, and filtering, with a focus on reliability and scalability. Prior experience with distributed systems and production backend environments is required.

Ansvarsområden

  • Build, maintain, and evolve backend systems that support personalization and recommendations at Spotify scale.
  • Develop infrastructure that enables efficient retrieval, ranking, and filtering of personalized content.
  • Build platform capabilities that support candidate generation and representations of content and users.
  • Design reliable, scalable, and performant services capable of supporting high-volume recommendation workloads.
  • Partner with engineers and teams across Spotify to understand their needs and build reusable platform solutions.
  • Improve the reliability, observability, maintainability, and operational performance of the systems the team owns.
  • Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions as our platforms continue to evolve.

Krav

  • 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 the infrastructure behind recommendation and personalization systems.
  • Enjoy solving platform-level problems and building systems that other engineering teams depend on.
  • Care about writing maintainable code, making thoughtful technical decisions, and continuously improving production systems.

Önskade kvalifikationer

  • Prior machine learning experience is helpful but not required.

Förmåner

  • The United States base range for this position is $132,948–$189,927 USD, plus 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
  • Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
  • Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
  • Global parental leave, six months off - for all new parents.
  • All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
  • Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
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New York, United States

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