4 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate backend services and data pipelines that ingest, validate, and process partner content.
- Own major parts of the ingestion pipeline and lead technical work for new content types and richer partner data.
- Improve pipeline reliability, data quality validation, real-time processing, and operational tooling.
- Design and evolve stable, backward-compatible APIs and schemas used by other teams.
- Lead projects from discovery through handover, contribute to planning and code review, participate in on-call, and mentor others.
- Collaborate with Content Ops, operations tooling, partner, and product teams.
Requirements
- Strong production experience building and operating backend services and data pipelines at scale.
- Experience with Java, Scala, or Go.
- Experience designing APIs, evolving schemas, and maintaining backward-compatible contracts.
- Ability to model data for auditability, versioning, and efficient querying, with understanding of real-time and batch-processing tradeoffs.
- Ability to lead projects, make sound technical decisions, and mentor others.
- Experience with content ingestion, DDEX, B2B partner integrations, rights or compliance-sensitive data, lyrics or time-synced data, or GCP is preferred.
Benefits
- Role based in London or Stockholm.
- Flexible work arrangement with some in-person meetings and the option to work from home.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.