Data/Backend Engineer

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  • London

TEKsystems

Senior Backend / Data Engineer

Mission: Make deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for millions of listeners worldwide. From personalized playlists to cutting-edge AI-driven recommendations, we build features that transform how people experience music and podcasts.

We’re looking for a Senior Backend / Data Engineer to join our centralized Safety team within the AI Foundations Studio.

This team develops state-of-the-art solutions to ensure safety across personalization products, including search, home recommendations, podcast discovery, and emerging GenAI features like AI Playlisting and video trailers. Our work spans tier-0 services such as recommendation filtering and production pipelines powering core experiences.

You’ll collaborate with research and trust & safety squads to prototype and deploy innovative techniques, tackling complex challenges around content sensitivity and user experience.

If you’re passionate about building scalable systems and shaping the future of personalized experiences, this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

  • Design technical specifications in partnership with product teams
  • Build large-scale, production-quality data pipelines
  • Architect, develop, deploy, and operate backend services serving millions of users
  • Act as a technical leader within your team and across the organization
  • Contribute to a cross-functional, autonomous agile team
  • Influence backend/data architecture company-wide
  • Participate in hack days and hack weeks to innovate and experiment

    • Who You Are

  • Proven experience delivering end-to-end production-quality backend/data solutions at scale
  • Skilled in designing modular architectures and tech specs for ambiguous problem spaces
  • Expertise in Ray, Hendrix, Scio, Java, Python, dbt, BigQuery, SQL
  • Comfortable collaborating across multiple teams and disciplines
  • Interested in owning complex, ambiguous problem spaces and driving clarity

    • Job Title: Data/Backend Engineer

    Location: London, UK

    Job Type: Contract

    Trading as TEKsystems. Allegis Group Limited, Maxis 2, Western Road, Bracknell, RG12 1RT, United Kingdom.

    No. 2876353. Allegis Group Limited operates as an Employment Business and Employment Agency as set out in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

    TEKsystems is a company within the Allegis Group network of companies (collectively referred to as “Allegis Group”). Aerotek, Aston Carter, EASi, Talentis Solutions, TEKsystems, Stamford Consultants and The Stamford Group are Allegis Group brands.

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