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Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform

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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,

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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.

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Location & Eligibility

    Where is the job
    London, United Kingdom
    Hybrid, some on-site time required
    Who can apply
    GB

    About this job

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    United Kingdom
    Posted
    1 day ago
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    has 95 open jobs on Jobera in 17 countries.

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    Posted
    October 21, 2026
    First seen
    October 23, 2026
    Last seen
    October 23, 2026

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    Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it.

    Employees
    1,001-5,000
    Founded
    2006
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    Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform