Description
We design Spotify's consumer experience,end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world.
Formats & Foundations is part of Spotify's Core Experience Studio, focused on helping users connect more deeply with creators and their content. The team owns and evolves some of Spotify's most highly trafficked experiences, including Artist, Album, Podcast, Episode, and Audiobook surfaces.
We're looking for a Senior Client Engineer who is passionate about mobile craftsmanship, scalable architecture, and building tools and foundations that empower product teams. You'll help shape technical direction, mentor engineers, and contribute to experiences used by millions of listeners every day.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve mobile experiences across some of Spotify's most visible consumer surfaces.
- Contribute to the architecture and development of reusable mobile foundations, frameworks, and platform capabilities.
- Lead technical initiatives that improve scalability, performance, reliability, and developer experience across the Spotify app.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and platform teams to shape product direction and technical strategy.
- Drive engineering quality through thoughtful code reviews, testing practices, observability, and operational excellence.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented engineering culture.
- Help teams across Spotify move faster by improving tooling, workflows, documentation, and shared engineering standards.
- Participate in experimentation and prototyping efforts tied to future-facing content and listening experiences.
- Explore modern engineering workflows, including AI-assisted development tools and emerging mobile technologies.
- Balance short-term product needs with long-term platform sustainability and technical health.
Requirements
- Strong experience building mobile applications using Swift and Kotlin.
- Experience contributing to large-scale consumer-facing applications with high performance and reliability expectations.
- Know how to design scalable, maintainable mobile systems and reusable platform components.
- Care deeply about user experience, accessibility, performance, and engineering craftsmanship.
- Experienced collaborating across disciplines and influencing technical decisions in cross-functional environments.
- Communicate technical ideas clearly and thoughtfully with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Enjoy mentoring and supporting engineers through collaboration, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful technical trade-offs.
- Curious about emerging technologies and evolving development practices, including AI-assisted engineering workflows.
- Bring a growth mindset and continuously look for opportunities to improve systems, products, and team practices.