About Talk

Spotify is a global community of over 250 million music fans, artists, and now podcasters. It's always been our mission to make audio more accessible for everyone, and create innovative ways for creators and fans to connect with each other.

We have three platforms that help us deliver a great creator experience: Anchor (the platform that allows you to create, distribute, monetize, and grow a podcast, all for free), Spotify for Podcasters (the platform that makes it easy to understand and engage with your listeners on Spotify, and Greenroom (the platform that allows anyone to stream or listen to live audio).

About the team

The Internal Tools team will increase operational efficiency for Anchor by building and iterating on systems that empower internal teams like customer support, trust and safety, compliance, and marketing. The team will work closely with stakeholders to build tooling that increases efficiency so we can support our growing number of podcast creators through automation.

The ideal candidate will have prior experience and a passion for building high-quality internal/operational systems. They should be excited to develop relationships with stakeholders within our organization and work closely with them to understand and solve pain points. This is a key role that enables everything we do across all of our platforms for audio creators.

The team will consist of one Product Manager, one Designer, and 6-8 Engineers - Backend, Web, and Full-Stack. You will be responsible for building out and managing a high-functioning agile team that values quality, speed, and engineering best practices.

We've done a lot already, and we have no plans of slowing down. Come help us build the future of audio creation!

What you'll do

• Work directly with other engineering leaders to define key aspects of the architecture of the company's web, mobile, and back-end products
• Embody our engineering philosophy of “anything is possible”
• Partner with product and design counterparts to manage all phases of development from ideation to post-deployment issue resolution
• Create and maintain accurate project schedules and milestones, as well as drive tasks to completion
• Work closely with your product partner and our R&D leads to develop a software roadmap for future features and improvements
• Collaborate regularly with other team members at all stages of product development and launch
• Work with and mentor your engineering team in collaborative, lead-by-example fashion, encouraging career and personal growth
• Ensure your team meets deadlines and launch dates through an effective sprint planning process and daily standups
• Focus on high quality, high-velocity feature delivery, maintaining the balance between maximizing business impact and minimizing technical debt
• Actively participate in the hiring process as both an interviewer and decision maker

Who you are

• You have 6+ years of software engineering experience, and 2+ years managing engineering teams
• You get excited about challenging computer science problems, and have a love of clean code
• You have a strong foundation in server architecture, performance and optimization, data structures, git, and design patterns
• You have a willingness to interact with and extract learnings from data (ideally by writing SQL)
• You have excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with team members across all functions of the company
• You have a persistent/determined work ethic and a willingness to try anything and everything
• You love podcasts, radio, or audio in general
• You are comfortable working within a fast-paced high growth startup environment
• You have a sense of humor

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 and is within working hours
• 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.

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 with a community of more than 381 million users.

Spotify is committed to safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For the US, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols.

This role is not eligible for hire in Colorado, USA.