The Subscriptions R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.
What You'll Do
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.
Support and develop 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.
Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and drive quality through testing practices, observability, and operational excellence.
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.
Learn, grow, and contribute to Spotify's engineering culture through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and curiosity.
Who You Are
You have experience developing Android applications using Kotlin.
You are aware of how to build maintainable, scalable, reusable and well-tested software systems.
You have experience collaborating with engineers and colleagues across disciplines.
You care about code quality, testing, documentation, and long-term maintainability.
You demonstrate curiosity, ownership, and a willingness to step outside your immediate area of expertise when needed.
You are curious about using modern development tooling, including AI-assisted coding solutions.
You bring a growth mindset and continuously look for opportunities to learn, improve systems, products, and team practices.
You might have familiarity with SQL, analytics systems, or data engineering concepts.
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EMEA region as long as we have a work location (excluding France due to on-call restrictions).
- This team operates within the Central European and GMT time zone for collaboration.
Skills Required
- Experience developing Android applications using Kotlin
- Ability to design, build, and evolve maintainable, scalable, reusable, and well-tested mobile software systems
- Experience collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and platform teams
- Care about code quality, testing, documentation, and long-term maintainability
- Be located within the EMEA region (excluding France) and operate with Central European / GMT timezone overlap for collaboration
- Familiarity with SQL, analytics systems, or data engineering concepts
- Curiosity about modern development tooling, including AI-assisted coding solutions
Spotify Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Spotify and has not been reviewed or approved by Spotify.
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Flexible Benefits — Employees consistently praise the total compensation package beyond base salary, highlighting a mix of RSUs, cash incentives, and stipends alongside core pay. The package is described as flexible and customizable through equity choices (e.g., RSUs, options, cash) that can be tailored for long-term wealth building.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are repeatedly highlighted as substantial, including generous vacation, paid sick days, volunteer time, and flexible holidays. These policies are framed as a meaningful part of the overall rewards experience beyond salary.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, and mental health support. Additional employer contributions to HSAs are cited as strengthening the overall health and wellness value proposition.
Spotify Insights
What We Do
Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 50m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience.






