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Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform

London; StockholmHybrid · United Kingdom
Senior · Permanent · Engineering
POSTED 21 OCTVERIFIED 7H AGO
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Pay · H-1B filings
$226k
median · n=8 · FY26
Open for
14d
since 21 Oct
H-1B · FY26
72
4 PERM · NL sponsor · UK sponsor
Hiring · 30d
85
−1 net · open roles
JavaScalaGCP

What You'll Do

  • 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
  • Own large parts of the ingestion pipeline and lead technical work as we add video, richer partner data and other new content
  • Make ingestion more reliable, catch data quality problems at the point of entry, and improve the operational tooling around the pipeline
  • Design and evolve APIs and schemas that other teams depend on, keeping contracts stable and backward compatible
  • Help move validation towards real time and make Silk Road a well-documented, self-serve platform
  • Deliver roadmap work, take part in planning, review code, and share on-call
  • Work with Content Ops, operations tooling teams, partner teams and the product teams that build on our content

Who You Are

  • You have strong experience building and operating backend services and data pipelines in production at scale, ideally in Java, Scala or Go
  • You have designed APIs and handled schema evolution and backward compatibility in systems where other teams rely on stable contracts
  • You’re comfortable modelling data for auditability, versioning and efficient querying and understand the tradeoffs between real-time and batch processing
  • You lead projects from discovery to handover, make sound technical decisions, and mentor others
  • 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.

Where You'll Be

  • This role is based in London or Stockholm.
  • 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.
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