{"active":true,"apply_url":"https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/9f66e598-8587-4a57-8552-2cdb8672014a/apply","company":{"claimed":false,"name":"Spotify","slug":"spotify","website":"https://www.spotify.com"},"countries":["GB","SE"],"employment_type":"full-time","first_seen_at":"2026-10-23T11:14:35Z","getwork_url":"https://getwork.dev/jobs/lv-spotify-9f66e598-8587-4a57-8552-2cdb8672014a/","id":"lv-spotify-9f66e598-8587-4a57-8552-2cdb8672014a","injection_flag":false,"last_seen_at":"2026-10-28T17:00:10Z","location":"London; Stockholm","published_at":"2026-10-21T16:44:17Z","regions":["europe"],"remote":"hybrid","role_family":"backend","salary":null,"seniority":"senior","stack":[],"stack_mentioned":["go","java","scala","gcp"],"title":"Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform","untrusted_description":"\n\nWhat You'll Do\n- 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\n\n- Own large parts of the ingestion pipeline and lead technical work as we add video, richer partner data and other new content\n\n- Make ingestion more reliable, catch data quality problems at the point of entry, and improve the operational tooling around the pipeline\n\n- Design and evolve APIs and schemas that other teams depend on, keeping contracts stable and backward compatible\n\n- Help move validation towards real time and make Silk Road a well-documented, self-serve platform\n\n- Deliver roadmap work, take part in planning, review code, and share on-call\n\n- Work with Content Ops, operations tooling teams, partner teams and the product teams that build on our content\n\nWho You Are\n- You have strong experience building and operating backend services and data pipelines in production at scale, ideally in Java, Scala or Go\n\n- You have designed APIs and handled schema evolution and backward compatibility in systems where other teams rely on stable contracts\n\n- You’re comfortable modelling data for auditability, versioning and efficient querying and understand the tradeoffs between real-time and batch processing\n\n- You lead projects from discovery to handover, make sound technical decisions, and mentor others\n\n- 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.\n\nWhere You'll Be\n- This role is based in London or Stockholm.\n\n- 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.","url":"https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/9f66e598-8587-4a57-8552-2cdb8672014a"}