Job description
Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.
Spotify is the world’s leading audio streaming platform, serving millions of listeners across 184 markets. We aim to encourage creative artists to support themselves through art and offer fans the opportunity to be encouraged. Within Spotify, the Ads Platform team empowers brands and advertisers to connect with engaged, passionate listeners at scale.
Joining Ads RnD as a versatile engineer, you’ll become part of a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about crafting innovative self-serve advertising tools. You will work alongside Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and senior engineers—rapidly learning our stack, shipping end to end features, and iterating on experiments to fuel Spotify Ad platform’s growth.
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement and ship features using Java, Typescript and other technologies for the Spotify Ads Manager.
- Partner with product managers and business stakeholders to build and scale our services, powering our platform.
- Collaborate with teams and disciplines across the world to deliver high-quality, high-impact customer-facing products and features.
- Perform code reviews, create documentation and take on complex bug fixes across services and multiple levels of the stack.
- Improve operational excellence and share your knowledge across the company to promote best practices.
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth.
- Uplift and mentor those around you. Especially those more junior than you.
Who You Are
- You are a full-stack engineer with at least 5 years of hands-on experience in Java and TypeScript to implement end-to-end features that handle a high volume of data.
- You have a strong understanding of web and API development principles and significant experience in building, integrating with, and using APIs. Proficiency in understanding and implementing REST, gRPC, and GraphQL is essential.
- You care about observability and building robust & reliable systems. This includes practical experience with engineering best practices, testing automation (unit, integration, and end-to-end), and monitoring tools to ensure software quality and system stability.
- You own your solutions end-to-end, from scoping tickets through to deployment and smoke testing your features in production.
- Nice to have experience with experimentation platforms, A/B testing concepts, and proficiency in SQL.
- You care about software architecture across the front-end, back-end, and the APIs gluing them together.
- You have experience working directly with stakeholders and Product leadership. You’re not just coding—you’re moving adoption, revenue, and user happiness metrics.
- Embracing challenges and celebrating wins, as well as failures, to derive findings, is a key aspect of your approach.
- You are comfortable working in an agile environment and are comfortable challenging yourself and your team to improve their ways of working.
Where You’ll Be
- You’ll be based in Australia, within a region in which we have a work location (Sydney or Melbourne)
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them! We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home full time.
- Working hours? We operate within the Australian Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and often need to communicate with our other team members in US, PST and EST
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is 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 chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
