Fullstack Engineer, Podcast

About the Role: Fullstack Engineer, Podcast at Spotify

Podcast R&D, a team within Spotify's Podcast Vertical, is dedicated to building best-in-class tools for creators. We manage the platforms, tools, and features that empower the creator experience, enabling podcasters and publishers to host, create, distribute content, grow and engage audiences, and monetize on Spotify.

This role is part of the New Value area, a multi-functional team that collaborates across business, product, design, and insights to identify, evaluate, launch, and scale new content verticals and revenue models. Our ambition is to transform the Podcast Vertical into a versatile creator and publisher platform, delivering significant value to Spotify Premium and driving over $1B in incremental revenue.

We are seeking thoughtful and dedicated engineers to join our team, building tools that empower hundreds of thousands of creators monthly. As a member of a tight-knit, high-impact group, you will work with teammates committed to improving engineering practices, supporting each other's growth, and delivering world-class technology solutions for creators.

You will play a key role within a diverse, distributed squad focused on subscriptions and fandom experiences. This includes Synced Feeds, the creator tooling driving subscription awareness and conversion on Spotify; the Spotify Open Access API, which facilitates third-party-hosted subscriptions; and Podcast Subscriptions, Spotify’s proprietary hosted subscription products. In the coming year, the squad will enhance Synced Feeds, launch podcast add-ons with key partners, and develop a new, scalable version of Spotify’s native subscription offering, establishing a foundation for creators of all sizes to monetize their fans directly on Spotify.

What You'll Do

• Develop and improve our user-facing layer and frontend SDKs (React/Typescript).
• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services (Java/Python).
• Actively participate in 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.
• Collaborate closely with a versatile group of engineers, product managers, designers and data specialists across multiple teams.
• Contribute to technical discussions and help shape platform decisions.

Who You Are

• You are experienced in designing and developing backend applications in Java.
• You have a proven understanding of React and TypeScript and are passionate about delivering end-to-end experiences and software architecture across the front-end, back-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.

Where You'll Be

This role is based in New York. 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.

Key Skills/Competency

• Java
• React
• TypeScript
• Python
• Backend Development
• Frontend Development
• API Design
• Scalable Systems
• Agile Methodologies
• Problem-solving