Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform
Spotify · London, England · Stockholm, Stockholm
What You'll Do
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
Who You Are
You have strong experience building and operating backend services and data pipelines in production at scale, ideally in Java, Scala or Go
You have designed APIs and handled schema evolution and backward compatibility in systems where other teams rely on stable contracts
You’re comfortable modelling data for auditability, versioning and efficient querying and understand the tradeoffs between real-time and batch processing
You lead projects from discovery to handover, make sound technical decisions, and mentor others
You may have worked with content ingestion, metadata standards such as DDEX, B2B partner integrations, rights or compliance-sensitive data, lyrics or time-synced data, or GCP.
Where You'll Be
This role is based in London or Stockholm.
We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.