iOS Engineer, Spotify
Subscriptions Mission
Commercial music streaming service
Open for applications
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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 have good communication skills and can articulate your ideas and ask clarifying questions
- You possess a strong desire to learn quickly, embrace feedback, and continuously improve your technical skills
- You enjoy thinking through problems and collaborating to find pragmatic solutions
- You care about quality and know what it means to ship high-quality code
- You have foundational knowledge of Swift and key iOS SDKs (e.g., SwiftUI)
- You believe in the power of teamwork for achieving goals and thrive on collaborating with colleagues throughout the company
- You have at least 2 years of iOS development experience
What the job involves
- We're seeking a thoughtful iOS Engineer to become part of a truly collaborative team. You'll work alongside engineers from various teams, all driving towards shared goals
- Our current focus is a massive undertaking: launching and scaling the new version of Spotify's free product
- Your role spans the full spectrum – from hands-on feature development and real-world experimentation within our team, to partnering with engineers across the company on cross-team collaborations
- This is a fantastic environment to grow your iOS development skills while working alongside experienced engineers on a high-impact product
- The features and functionality you build with us will reach millions of users every day
- Help the squad deliver on its goals by working on hands-on feature development in a fast paced environment
- Collaborate with engineers (iOS, Android and Backend), engineering manager, product manager, designers and data scientists to come up with the best possible solutions for the problems the squad is tasked with solving
- Set up experiments with the functionality we build to help Spotify learn and improve
- Participate actively in code reviews (both giving and receiving feedback) to maintain quality and learn best practices
- Contribute to the overall Spotify platform within the iOS domain
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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