Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform

LondonFull-time2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10

Hybrid

Core

Build and run backend services and data pipelines to ingest, validate, and process music deliveries from partners into Spotify's catalog data.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (Content Ingestion)

Builds

Scalable ingestion platform for audio, metadata, lyrics, and new content types

Domain

Music streaming / Content ingestion

Required skills

Backend services, data pipelines, Java/Scala/Go, API design, schema evolution, data modeling, real-time/batch processing

Preferred skills

Content ingestion, metadata standards (DDEX), B2B partner integrations, GCP

Responsibilities

Build and run backend services and data pipelines, own large parts of the ingestion pipeline, improve operational tooling, design and evolve APIs and schemas, lead projects from discovery to handover

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

About Spotify

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