The Role
As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll enhance our Ads API and Data Store, collaborate on data solutions, and ensure operational excellence.
Summary Generated by Built In
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.
Spotify is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join the Spotify Advertising Team. Our team is responsible for maintaining our Ads API and primary data store: if you’re passionate about data availability, integrity and performance at scale, come join us!
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with band members on the Ads API and Data Store team to enhance our API and data ecosystem, including ingestion, consumption, transformation and storage.
- Collaborate with engineering squads across Spotify, helping them enhance their products by providing first class data solutions, knowledge and education.
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
- Improve operational excellence and share your knowledge across the company to promote best practices.
Who You Are
- You’re an experienced Java engineer with 5+ years of working experience on backend services as scale.
- You have built and maintained APIs at scale.
- You have some experience with Data Engineering with Scala.
- Additional tools and technologies such as Spring, GCP, NextJS, GraphQL are a plus.
- You have a strong grasp of design patterns, data structures, and distributed architecture.
- You care about observability & reliability and have experience with engineering best practices and testing automation to build quality into software and systems.
- You value team success over personal success and have the ability to both uplift and up-level other engineers.
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, it can be within the North America region in which we have a work location.
- This team collaborates across the Pacific time zone, Australian, and Eastern time zone.
The United States base range for this position is $132,949.00 - 189,927.00 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. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. 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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience with backend services at scale
- Experience in building and maintaining APIs
- Experience with Data Engineering and Scala
- Familiarity with Spring, GCP, NextJS, GraphQL
- Strong knowledge of design patterns and distributed architecture
- Experience with observability and testing automation
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.
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What We Do
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