Android Engineer, Music

The Music Mission at Spotify is looking for an experienced Android Engineer to join the Native Ads product area, which owns the Marquee and Showcase music promotion features. Our team builds tools that empower artists and labels to promote their music through personalized recommendations in the Spotify app.

We’re looking for a strong technical leader to take charge of Android development and own the Marquee and Showcase mobile components. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team with expertise across mobile, desktop, web, backend, and data—providing great opportunities to deepen your expertise and broaden your T-shaped skill set, if you're interested. You’ll work closely with fellow engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to build both experimental and production-ready features that reach millions of listeners.

What You'll Do

• Architect, build, and deliver high-quality, innovative Android apps using Kotlin and Java
• Serve as Technical Project Lead and collaborate across multiple teams within Spotify
• Collaborate closely with a tight-knit, multi-functional team of engineers, product managers, data scientists, designers, and customer support who are passionate about seeking exciting and ambitious problems for delivering value to artists and fans alike
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with exciting tasks and the opportunity to acquire new skills across different subject areas
• Deliver testable, maintainable, and high-quality code and take operational responsibility for the components that you develop
• Hack on what you want during regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks

Who You Are

• You have a deep understanding of modern Android development
• You have experience as a technical leader leading small to medium sized projects
• You know how to write readable, maintainable, performant object-oriented Kotlin and Java; experienced in Bazel and Gradle
• You care about quality and know what it means to ship high-quality code
• You understand design patterns (Android and Java), data structures, architecture, and how to apply craft to design pragmatic solutions
• You are experienced in working with modern infrastructure and tools
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming, security-focused design, and automated testing
• Experience in backend or iOS development is a plus
• You are interested in keeping up with current standard Android methodologies
• You value team success over personal success

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 EST time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $125,562- $179,374 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.