Backend Engineer, Mimir, Personalization

Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, and evolve backend systems that support personalization and recommendations at Spotify scale.
• Develop infrastructure enabling efficient retrieval, ranking, and filtering of personalized content.
• Build platform capabilities for candidate generation and representations of content and users.

Requirements:

• Professional experience building and operating backend systems in production.
• Experience with distributed systems, APIs, data-intensive applications, or large-scale service architectures.
• Comfortable with systems where reliability, latency, and scalability matter.

Work Environment:

• Distributed workforce in North America; remote and office options available.
• Collaboration within Eastern Standard time zone.
• Opportunities for growth in a supportive, inclusive culture.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Base salary range $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.