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Spotify

Backend Engineer - Personalization

Spotify
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about 7 hours ago
London, United Kingdom
Mid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Own backend systems that rank and serve personalized content to users.
  • Implement backend changes across services and ensure architectural coherence.
  • Integrate with ML serving infrastructure and collaborate with ML engineers.
  • Make product-informed backend decisions to enhance user engagement.
  • Design patterns, tests, and guardrails for consistent and safe code.
  • Run and analyze A/B experiments to inform feature rollouts.
  • Ensure production reliability, including monitoring and incident response.

Requirements

  • Experience in building and operating backend services in Java or a JVM language.
  • Ability to think in systems and reason about service contracts and architectural tradeoffs.
  • Fluency with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
  • Product-oriented mindset with an understanding of user engagement.
  • Experience in system design with a focus on latency, reliability, and scalability.
  • Comfortable with production ownership, including on-call responsibilities.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity in AI-native workflows.

Benefits

  • Flexible work location within the European region.
  • Collaboration within the GMT/CET time zone.

Tech Stack

Java

Categories

AI & MLBackend