Senior Fullstack Engineer, Spotify
Data Platform
$183-228.7k
+ Equity
Commercial music streaming service
Open for applications
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$183-228.7k
+ Equity
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
- A Proven Leader: You’ve successfully delivered technical solutions, coached peers, and built relationships with leadership to ensure long-term success
- Collaborative: You thrive in cross-functional teams, working closely with product managers, designers, platform teams, and leadership to deliver exceptional experiences
- Strategic Thinker: You define goals and drive them forward, aligning your work with Spotify’s vision for the future of data
- Innovative Builder: You advocate for high architectural standards and promote iterative, fail-fast solutions that deliver impact
- Technical Expert: You bring expertise in Java, TypeScript, React, (Bonus: Scala), systems design, and algorithms, with hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, event-driven systems, SRE practices)
- Impactful Engineer: You’ve shipped high-quality code and contributed to developer tools or data platform projects, improving team productivity and reliability
- This role is for someone who wants to set the bar for technical excellence, mentor others, and make a tangible impact on a global platform. If you’re ready to lead and innovate at scale, we’d love to hear from you!
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our Data Quality and Observability team
- You’ll build innovative tools that empower developers and data practitioners to collaborate with confidence, ensuring data accuracy and reliability
- Your work will shape Spotify’s data-driven future while improving the experience for teams across the company
- Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams of data, backend, and fullstack engineers to deliver robust, production-ready solutions
- Enhance our observability and quality tooling stack, continuously shipping well-tested code that delivers at planet scale
- Contribute to the vision for data observability, setting and achieving quarterly, annual, and long-term goals
- Participate in hack days, hack weeks, and community events to share and expand your expertise
- Foster a culture of respect, collaboration, and playfulness within the team, prioritizing excellence in both product and people
- Work in an environment where engineers are empowered to take ownership from ideation to production
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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