Senior Fullstack Engineer, Spotify

Platforms & Partner Experience

Salary not provided

React

TypeScript

React Native

JavaScript

iOS

Android

C++

Rust

Senior and Expert level

London

More information about location

Commercial music streaming service

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Commercial music streaming service

1001+ employees

B2CMusicEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMobile

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

React

TypeScript

React Native

JavaScript

iOS

Android

C++

Rust

Senior and Expert level

London

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CMusicEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMobile

Company mission

To unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Experience in Web or Playback Systems Engineering, with deep knowledge of modern JavaScript and TypeScript (ESNext, Web APIs, performance profiling)
You’re confident working with media playback APIs such as MediaSource Extensions, EME, WebRTC, HLS/DASH, and DRM, and you understand how to build for video streaming and measurement, including adaptive bitrate, buffering, and QoE metrics
Ideally, you are familiar with CI systems and hermetic testing at scale, and you care about data instrumentation, from logging and metrics to dash boarding and observability
Experience with native media stacks (Android/iOS, C++, Rust, or React Native bridges) is a strong plus
Knowledge of ads technology and fallback mechanisms in media delivery is also valuable
Someone who works well in multi-functional environments and values teamwork as much as technical prowess, who cares about building inclusive, maintainable systems that serve a wide range of users and partners

What the job involves

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platforms & Partner Experience team
In this role, you’ll help build and evolve a reliable, high-performance media SDK that powers Spotify’s web and JavaScript surface
This SDK supports both first-party products and partner integrations, delivering consistent, high-quality playback and resilience across audio and video
This work will help millions of listeners and hundreds of partners experience seamless playback wherever Spotify plays
Take end-to-end responsibility for playback and measurement for audio and video on web, meeting reliability goals for start success, time-to-first-frame, and smooth, stall-free sessions
Develop and evolve the team architecture to support new media formats and maintain feature parity with native platforms
Improve CI and observability systems through hermetic testing, synthetic canaries, SLO-based rollouts
Collaborate with native other teams to define shared contracts, mocks, and conformance tests that ensure consistency across platforms
Advance video reliability through ads fallback, AEC conformance, lossless playback on Cast, and multi-player coordination
Build on our data and experimentation foundations by contributing to unified dashboards and reusable metrics templates
Support teammates in playback architecture, streaming performance, and data instrumentation

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.

With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.

Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

23% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4)

Trustpilot (1.6)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Jan 2016

$1bn

CONVERTIBLE

Jun 2015

$526m

SERIES G

Total funding: $2.1bn

Company benefits

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs

Company HQ

Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län

Leadership

Daniel Ek

(CEO & Chairman)

Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.

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