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Senior Backend Engineer - Recommender Systems

Hampton North

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Senior Backend Engineer - Recommender Systems

Engineering Remote, US, California Permanent Jun 9, 2026

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.

Compensation

$190-250k + RSUs

Location

Full Remote

This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering and machine learning, you won’t be building models, but you will be responsible for the systems that enable them to run reliably, in real time, and at scale.

What you’ll be doing

• 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

And what you'll need

• 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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