Senior Full Stack Engineer, Spotify
Advertising
$164.4-234.9k
Plus equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$164.4-234.9k
Plus equity
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
- You are an experienced Full Stack Engineer with 5+ years of professional experience
- You have experience building and maintaining APIs and services at scale
- You have strong experience with Java and Spring
- You have strong experience with JavaScript. Additional experience with tools and technologies such as ReactJS, NodeJS, NextJS, and GraphQL are a plus
- You have some experience with data engineering concepts and tools (e.g., Scala, large-scale data pipelines)
- You have experience with GCP, distributed systems, machine learning platforms, or generative AI integrations
- You have a strong grasp of design patterns, data structures, and distributed and web architectures
- You care deeply about observability, reliability, and quality, and you apply engineering best practices including testing automation
- You have experience leading or contributing to large codebase refactors, including microservices or micro-frontend architectures
- You are autonomous, take ownership of your work, and actively drive your personal growth
- You value team success over personal success and enjoy uplifting and mentoring other engineers
- You are a strong communicator and empathetic collaborator who can anticipate partner needs and work effectively across disciplines
What the job involves
- Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video
- We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers
- This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators
- Spotify is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join the Spotify Advertising Team. Our teams are responsible for building and maintaining critical systems that power advertising data, brand safety, content review, and AI-driven ad experiences across Spotify
- We are looking for engineers who are motivated by user and business problems as much as technical challenges, and who enjoy ambiguity, brainstorming, experimentation, and iteration
- You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, business partners, and leadership to build impactful solutions for Spotify listeners, advertisers, and creators
- Build, maintain, and evolve backend & frontend services/APIs/Automations that support advertising data platforms, content and ad categorization, and AI-powered initiatives
- Lead development on front-end products owned by the squad, including tools for moderation, review, and advertiser-facing workflows
- Deliver UX optimizations that improve ad and content review efficiency and effectiveness
- Collaborate with engineering squads across Spotify to provide high-quality data solutions, shared knowledge, and best practices
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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