Senior Backend Engineer - Audiobooks

Spotify Technology S.A.

Job Overview

Location

London

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Senior Backend Engineer role focused on building and scaling systems that ingest, process, and transform audiobook and eBook content, metadata, and royalties for Spotify’s growing global audiobook catalog.
• Day-to-day responsibilities include developing backend and data-focused solutions to ensure seamless content flow from publishers to listeners, working within a small, high-impact team in the Audiobooks Pipeline area.
• The team operates within Spotify’s Audiobooks Mission, dedicated to transforming long-form storytelling experiences by enabling efficient, high-quality delivery of audiobook content across platforms.
• The role offers opportunity to solve complex, ambiguous problems across the stack, stretch technical skills, and contribute to a rapidly growing product with global impact in digital storytelling.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in backend and data-focused development
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and learn quickly
• Eagerness to solve challenging problems across the stack
• Strong foundation in building scalable systems for content ingestion, processing, and delivery

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work on a high-impact, growing mission within Spotify’s Audiobooks team
• Collaboration in a small, high-impact team environment
• Chance to stretch beyond comfort zone and grow technically across the stack
• Contribution to transforming how creators and listeners experience long-form storytelling globally

Skills & Technologies

Backend

Senior

Onsite

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About Spotify Technology S.A.

Spotify Technology S.A. provides an audio streaming platform offering music, podcasts, and audiobooks through freemium and subscription tiers. Founded in Sweden in 2006, the company operates globally via desktop, mobile, web, and connected-device applications. It licenses content from record labels and creators and monetizes through paid memberships and targeted advertising. Additional features include algorithmic recommendations, social sharing, and creator tools for distribution and analytics.

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