• Build and evolve Groove, a platform that helps thousands of Spotify employees plan, coordinate, and deliver work across the company.
• Work across the stack using React, TypeScript, Java, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to build end-to-end solutions.
• Join a small, cross-functional engineering team focused on building thoughtful tools that reduce friction and help people do their best work.
• Sit within the Platform team, which creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily across its global user base.
📋 Job Requirements
• Have 5+ years of experience building scalable fullstack applications in production environments.
• Be comfortable working across frontend and backend technologies and understand how they fit together to create reliable products.
• Have experience with APIs, distributed systems, and modern web application architecture.
• Take ownership of the software you build, from implementation through production health and ongoing improvements.
• Have experience designing systems and influencing technical direction.
• Communicate clearly and effectively through documentation and collaboration in distributed teams.
• Write clean, maintainable code that enables others to build with confidence.
• Use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully and validate outputs with sound engineering judgement.
• Navigate ambiguity with confidence and make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Enjoy mentoring others, sharing knowledge, and helping teammates grow.
🌟 Nice-to-have
• Have experience building internal platforms or developer tooling used by thousands of employees.
• Have experience with initiative tracking, planning workflows, or dependency management tools.
• Have experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or similar container orchestration platforms.
• Have experience leading the design and delivery of complex, high-impact features across the stack.
🎯 Responsibilities
• Build and evolve Groove, a fullstack platform that supports planning, collaboration, and execution across Spotify.
• Design and deliver features including initiative tracking, planning workflows, and dependency management.
• Work across the stack using React, TypeScript, Java, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and GKE to build end-to-end solutions.
• Partner closely with product managers and designers to understand user needs and create intuitive, effective experiences.
• Ensure reliability through testing, monitoring, and continuous improvement in production.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and help respond to production incidents when needed.
• Improve the performance, scalability, and maintainability of frontend and backend systems.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity while maintaining ownership of quality, correctness, and outcomes.
• Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-impact features across the stack.
• Own problems end-to-end, from shaping ambiguous requirements through to production-ready solutions.
• Help define and evolve architecture across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar across the team.
About Spotify
😃 What Spotify offers
• Work from London or Stockholm with flexibility to work from home.
• Receive extensive learning opportunities through Spotify's dedicated GreenHouse team.
• Receive flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in Spotify's success.
• Receive six months of global parental leave for all new parents.
• Access All The Feels, the employee assistance programme and self-care hub.
• Swap public holidays flexibly according to your values and beliefs.
💖 What makes Spotify unique
Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service with more than 700 million monthly active users. The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, building the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.
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