Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform

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.