Senior Full Stack Engineer
New York, NY / Los Angeles, CA
Engineering – Advertising R&D /
Permanent /
Remote
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.
We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer that will join the Spotify Advertising team. As a member of our platform team, you will utilize your robust frontend and full-stack expertise to enhance our advertising offerings. Your work will involve supporting various squads and systems, including Ads Manager and internal tooling products, and maintaining a local design system powered by Encore.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain scalable services and APIs, ensuring performance, security, and reliability.
- Lead backend architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and guide large-scale system improvements.
- Resolve complex issues across distributed systems and drive adoption of high-quality backend practices.
- Partner with teams to design APIs and integrations that reduce reliance on custom one-offs.
- Collaborate with designers and product managers to implement features on top of backend services.
- Provide flexible, well-documented APIs that enable consistent and user-friendly frontend experiences.
- Contribute to frontend codebases when needed, supporting design system adoption and alignment.
Who You Are
- Skilled in Java, GraphQL, and backend system design.
- Strong grasp of design patterns, data structures, and distributed architecture.
- Experienced in leading backend projects and multi-team refactors.
- Focused on code quality, maintainability, and pragmatic backend-first solutions.
- Familiar with React, Typescript, HTML, CSS, with interest in performance optimization.
- Comfortable supporting frontend teams through tooling, APIs, and occasional contributions.
- Care about delivering user-focused experiences through backend–frontend collaboration.
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North American region as long as we have a work location.
- This team operates within the PST and EST time zone for collaboration. We often need to communicate with our other team members on Australian Eastern Standard time.
The United States base range for this position is $160,091- $228,702 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. These ranges may be modified in the future.
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.
