Backend leaning Full Stack Engineer

Podcast R&D is a product and technology team within Podcast Vertical at Spotify, focused on building best-in-class tools for creators.

This Backend leaning Full Stack role is part of the New Value area, a cross-functional team working across business, product, design, and insights to identify, evaluate, launch, and scale new content verticals and revenue models.

You’ll play a key role within a diverse, distributed squad focused on subscriptions and fandom experiences - including Synced Feeds, the creator tooling that drives subscription awareness and conversion on Spotify; the Spotify Open Access API (SOA), which enables third-party - hosted subscriptions; and new first-party products in the subscription content space.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services (Java)
• Be an active part of creating and evolving APIs and services that connect user experiences with internal scalable infrastructure, while applying product requirements
• Drive improvements to system architecture, performance, and developer experience
• Develop and enhance our user-facing layer and frontend SDKs (React/Typescript)
• Collaborate closely with a talented group of engineers, product managers, designers and data specialists across multiple teams
• Contribute to technical discussions and help shape platform decisions

Requirements

• You are experienced in designing and developing backend applications in Java.
• You have a solid understanding of React, and TypeScript and are passionate about delivering end-to-end experiences and software architecture across the back-end, front-end, and the APIs that glue them together.
• You have a growth mindset, are curious, and are not afraid to be experimental. You share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you.
• Experience with infrastructure-related technologies is a plus.
• You care about agile software development and a culture of constant learning and improvement.
• You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas.
• You have experience and passion for mentoring and encouraging collaborative teams.

Location and Benefits

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North Americas region as long as we have a work location.
• This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
• The United States base range for this position is $150,000 - $189,000 plus equity.
• The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave.