Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform at Spotify · London
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B2B
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You have designed APIs and handled schema evolution and backward compatibility in systems where other teams rely on stable contracts
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You’re comfortable modelling data for auditability, versioning and efficient querying and understand the tradeoffs between real-time and bat
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You lead projects from discovery to handover, make sound technical decisions, and mentor others
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This role is based in London or Stockholm.
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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 fr
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: B2B is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: GCP is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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