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full-timeSenior Backend Engineer - Content Platform
Spotify · London
Spotify operates a global audio streaming platform, focusing on creating seamless listening experiences across mobile, desktop, and various hardware integrations. This Senior Backend Engineer role sits within the content platform team, which is responsible for the end-to-end ingestion of music and media. The daily responsibilities involve managing the technical infrastructure that receives, validates, and processes industry-standard deliveries from labels and distributors. Engineers in this position work to transform raw data into structured catalog information, including lyrics, rights, and supply data, which serves as the foundation for other product features. A primary objective of the role is to develop scalable ingestion systems that can accommodate new content types and partners without requiring bespoke builds for each integration. This position is well-suited for experienced backend engineers who possess strong skills in distributed systems, data processing, and platform architecture. Candidates should be comfortable working with high-volume data pipelines and designing robust, extensible systems that support complex content delivery workflows across a global ecosystem.
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.
| Role | Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform |
|---|---|
| Company | Spotify |
| Location | London |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-21 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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