# Senior Backend Data Engineer – Content Intelligence

**Company**: Spotify
**Location**: Stockholm
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Permanent
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Experience team at Spotify designs the consumer experience across various screens, platforms, and partner integrations. The Content Intelligence Product Area is a core part of Spotify's Content Platform, focusing on creating deep, machine-readable understanding of content. We're seeking a Senior Backend Data Engineer to help build and scale systems powering content understanding.

## 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

## Requirements

- 5+ years of relevant engineering experience, with strong experience in backend and/or data engineering

- Deep expertise in either backend or data engineering and comfort working across both disciplines

- Experience building and scaling large-scale distributed systems

- Strong programming experience in Java, Scala, and/or Python

- Understanding of designing systems with scalability, reliability, performance, and cost in mind

- Comfortable taking end-to-end ownership of complex engineering problems

- Ability to translate technical problems into designs, RFCs, and executable engineering plans

- Effective communication and collaboration with engineering, product, and technical stakeholders

- Comfortable operating in an environment where backend, data, ML infrastructure, and AI increasingly overlap

- Ability to participate in a shared on-call rotation

- Experience with ML infrastructure, AI/LLM systems, agents, model evaluation, or integrating model APIs at scale is a plus

- Exposure to large-scale multimedia processing, audio processing, search, or recommendation systems is a plus

## Skills

### Required
- backend engineering
- data engineering
- distributed systems
- Java
- Scala
- Python
- ML infrastructure
- AI/LLM systems

### Nice to have
- large-scale multimedia processing
- audio processing
- search
- recommendation systems

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