2 days ago
Stockholm, Sweden or London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve scalable backend and data systems for content intelligence.
- Own significant engineering projects from technical design and architecture through implementation and operation.
- Build reliable infrastructure for large-scale processing of audio, video, text, and images.
- Create RFCs and contribute to architectural decisions across connected systems.
- Develop high-throughput data and content-processing systems with scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency in mind.
- Work with distributed data systems and large-scale content-management infrastructure.
- Partner with engineers and technical stakeholders to plan and deliver solutions.
- Contribute to AI and LLM-enabled workflows for content understanding, enrichment, and processing.
- Evaluate and integrate AI capabilities into production systems at scale.
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation and contribute to technical quality and engineering best practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in backend and/or data engineering.
- Deep expertise in backend or data engineering with the ability to work across both disciplines.
- Experience building and scaling large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong programming experience in Java, Scala, and/or Python.
- Ability to design systems for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Experience taking end-to-end ownership of complex engineering problems and translating them into designs, RFCs, and executable plans.
- Effective communication and collaboration with engineering, product, and technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work across backend, data, ML infrastructure, and AI systems.
- Ability to participate in a shared on-call rotation.
- Experience with ML infrastructure, AI/LLM systems, agents, model evaluation, or model API integration is preferred.
- Exposure to large-scale multimedia processing, audio processing, search, or recommendation systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Role is based in London or Stockholm.
- Flexible work arrangement with some in-person meetings and the ability to work from home.
- Spotify is an equal opportunity employer and provides accessible accommodations during the recruitment process.
About Spotify
Spotify builds a global audio streaming platform for listeners and creators, offering on-demand music and podcasts across mobile, desktop, and connected devices. The business runs a freemium model: an ad-supported free tier and a paid Premium subscription, plus creator tools like Spotify for Artists and podcast publishing. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Stockholm, it is a publicly traded company on the NYSE (SPOT) serving consumers and rights holders worldwide.