Senior iOS Developer Experience Engineer, Spotify
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Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
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
Role
Who you are
- Passion for improving developer experience and willingness to work across multiple platforms
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards learning and development
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment
- Interest in standardising workflows and contributing to a unified development environment
- Excellent communication skills to effectively convey insights and collaborate with various stakeholders
- Care about the developer experience
- Experienced with Developer tooling
- Comfortable with the CLI
- Fundamental programming skills
- IOS expertise with additional experience on other platforms
- Experience working with build systems
What the job involves
- We are seeking a passionate Developer Experience Engineer to join our team, where we are dedicated to improving the productivity and efficiency of our development processes
- Engineers in the Client Platform Studio work across various squads to ensure efficient, reliable, and scalable client development
- We're dedicated to improving the developer journey by eliminating friction and integrating tools in a seamless, cross-platform environment
- Our mission is to empower developers to work efficiently and creatively, supported by rapid support and clear communication
- We envision a world-class development environment that makes development fast, enjoyable, and effective
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team to improve and streamline the developer experience
- Research and understand different customer types, behaviours, and needs to inform product development
- Contribute to the standardization and guidance of development workflows across various platforms
- Participate in the development of a unified cross-platform experience to facilitate smoother transitions across technologies
- Engage in continuous user research to gather insights and identify pain points
- Implement "shift left" practices to provide early feedback in the development process
- To give you a taste of what our team is currently doing:
- Building a unified CLI tool for all developers at Spotify
- Migrating to and optimizing for a Monorepo and Bazel build environment
- Investigating building unified IDE environment across Android, iOS, Web, C++, and Backend
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
23% employee growth in 12 months
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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