At Spotify Advertising, our part of that mission is to build the next generation advertising platform for audio which can scale the freemium experience for hundreds of millions of fans and tens of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities to define the insights product for our business.

We are looking for a C++ Engineer to join the Podcast Ad Monetization team to drive engineering leadership and practices. In this role you will be delivering features that will help scale Spotify’s podcast ad revenue to the benefit of creators, advertisers all while trying to maintain a user-first ad experience that’s personalized and relevant. Your work will impact the way the world experiences podcasts and allow the next generation of podcast creators to live off their work.

What you'll do

• Support features with robust and flexible metadata fetching from backend, caching, and querying in the Spotify client
• Contribute to the shared C++ library powering our mobile and desktop clients
• Use Big Data to understand and improve user experience
• Enable low latency playback even in the most ambitious network conditions
• Make sure off lining content works optimally and intuitively
• Ensure quality through automated testing

Who you are

• You craft, develop and maintain C++ code in symbiosis with a handful of other languages
• You are able to write clear, modular, maintainable code that will perform on many platforms and devices
• You have an interest in networking and data synchronization
• Cooperation with others while solving sophisticated problems is natural for you and you really want to make a difference
• End-user experience, high quality, agile values and modern engineering practices are what drives you
• You have been working for a couple of years with software development and probably have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent such as Physics or Electrical Engineering
• You have strong written and spoken communication skills in English 

Where you'll be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration

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.

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.