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You will own the onboarding and enrichment of new multimedia content. Extend scalable event-driven and batch-processing systems that produce reliable metadata for curation and customer-facing applications.\n\nOur customer is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed images, videos, and music. Our customer helps inspire graphic designers, creative directors, video editors, filmmakers, web developers, and other creative professionals by providing diverse content to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Content creators contribute their work to our client, where end users buy and use it in a diverse array of creative personal and business projects. 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