Senior Backend Data Engineer, Content Intelligence

Spotify; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Senior Backend Data Engineer to design and scale backend and data systems powering content understanding. You will own end-to-end projects, building reliable, cost-efficient infra for high-throughput processing across audio, video, text, and images.

You will contribute to AI/LLM-enabled workflows and collaborate across engineers, product, and technical stakeholders, with a hybrid working model in London or Stockholm.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in backend and/or data engineering.
• Experience building and scaling large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong programming in Java, Scala, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve scalable backend and data systems powering Spotify’s content intelligence capabilities.
• Take end-to-end ownership of significant engineering projects, from technical design and architecture through implementation and operation.
• Build reliable infrastructure for large-scale content processing across audio, video, text, and images.
• Create RFCs and contribute to architectural decisions within your squad and across connected systems.
• Develop reliable and cost-efficient systems for high-throughput data and content-processing workloads.
• Work with distributed data systems and large-scale content-management infrastructure.
• Partner closely with other Engineers to plan and deliver technical solutions.
• Contribute to AI and LLM-enabled workflows and infrastructure, including systems for content understanding, enrichment, and processing.
• Evaluate and integrate AI capabilities into production systems at scale.
• Build a strong understanding of adjacent systems and contribute to a shared on-call rotation.
• Contribute to technical quality and engineering best practices across the team.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Java/Scala/Python

On-call experience

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Senior Backend Data Engineer to design and scale backend and data systems powering content understanding. You will own end-to-end projects, building reliable, cost-efficient infra for high-throughput processing across audio, video, text, and images.

You will contribute to AI/LLM-enabled workflows and collaborate across engineers, product, and technical stakeholders, with a hybrid working model in London or Stockholm.