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Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform

London / Stockholm

Engineering – Experience / Permanent / Hybrid

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We design Spotify’s consumer experience-end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints-from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.

We own music content ingestion at Spotify, which is how music from labels, distributors, and other partners gets onto the platform. We receive industry-standard deliveries, validate them, and turn them into the catalog data that teams across Spotify build on, including lyrics, rights, and supply data. As we add new content types and partners, we’re building an ingestion platform that scales without a custom build every time.

Responsibilities

Build and run the backend services and data pipelines that ingest, validate, and process music deliveries from partners, covering audio, metadata, lyrics, and new content types
Own large parts of the ingestion pipeline and lead technical work as we add video, richer partner data, and other new content
Make ingestion more reliable, catch data quality problems at the point of entry, and improve the operational tooling around the pipeline
Design and evolve APIs and schemas that other teams depend on, keeping contracts stable and backward compatible
Help move validation towards real-time and make Silk Road a well-documented, self-serve platform
Deliver roadmap work, take part in planning, review code, and share on-call
Work with Content Ops, operations tooling teams, partner teams, and the product teams that build on our content

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 and backward compatibility in systems where other teams rely on stable contracts
Comfortable modeling data for auditability, versioning, and efficient querying and understand the tradeoffs between real-time and batch processing
Ability to lead projects from discovery to handover, make sound technical decisions, and mentor others
Experience with content ingestion, metadata standards such as DDEX, B2B partner integrations, rights, compliance-sensitive data, lyrics, time-synced data, or GCP is a plus

Where You'll Be

This role is based in London or Stockholm.
We offer the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in-person meetings, but there is still flexibility to work from home.

We Offer

Opportunity to work in a leading music streaming company
Be part of a team that shapes the consumer experience at Spotify
Hybrid work environment with flexibility

About the Company

Spotify is a leading music streaming service that offers a vast library of songs, podcasts, and videos. We are committed to providing an intuitive, expressive, and joyful experience for our users around the world. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us. Find our AI notice here: Spotify AI Notice

Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform

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