- Company: Spotify
- Location: London or Stockholm
- Job type: Permanent
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About the role
Spotify is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help design the consumer experience across all platforms. You will join the team responsible for music content ingestion, ensuring that data from labels and distributors is validated and processed into the catalog used by billions of users. The goal is to build a scalable ingestion platform that handles new content types without requiring custom builds for every addition.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate backend services and data pipelines for ingesting audio, metadata, and lyrics from partners.
- Lead technical work to add new content types, such as video and richer partner data.
- Improve pipeline reliability and catch data quality issues at the entry point.
- Design and evolve APIs and schemas while maintaining backward compatibility for other teams.
- Move validation processes towards real-time and improve the documentation of the Silk Road platform.
- Participate in roadmap planning, code reviews, and on-call duties.
- Collaborate with Content Ops, partner teams, and product teams.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and operating backend services and data pipelines in production at scale, ideally in Java, Scala, or Go.
- Experience designing APIs and handling schema evolution in systems with stable contracts.
- Comfort with data modelling for auditability, versioning, and efficient querying.
- Understanding of trade-offs between real-time and batch processing.
- Ability to lead projects from discovery to handover and mentor other engineers.
- Experience with content ingestion, DDEX standards, B2B integrations, or GCP is a plus.
Pay and benefits
The job ad does not specify a salary range. The role offers flexibility to work from home, with some in-person meetings required. It is based in London or Stockholm.
How to apply
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