[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer - Recommender Systems
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hampton North is partnering with a high-growth, product-led consumer platform building a highly curated, data-driven experience at scale. They’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale the backend systems that power personalization and recommendation features used by millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Designing and building scalable backend systems that power ranking, recommendation, and personalization features
- Owning the infrastructure and services that support ML models in production (serving, data pipelines, real-time systems)
- Partnering closely with ML engineers and data scientists to productionize models and improve system performance
- Building and optimizing high-throughput, low-latency services that directly impact user experience
- Driving architectural decisions across distributed systems and backend services
- Improving reliability, scalability, and observability across core systems
Skills
- Must have experience supporting and scaling recommendation systems, ranking systems, or personalization platforms
- 5+ years of backend or distributed systems engineering experience
- Proficiency in backend languages in Golang
- Strong experience building and scaling high-performance systems in production environments
- Experience working closely with ML teams (e.g. deploying models, building data pipelines, or supporting ML infrastructure)
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, and large-scale data processing
- Strong system design and architecture skills
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