Senior Web Engineer, Spotify
Advertising
$156.3-223.3k
+ Equity
Commercial music streaming service
Job no longer available
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$156.3-223.3k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- You’re an experienced Javascript developer with 5+ years of working experience
- You are experienced with React.js, Node.js & GraphQL. Additional tools and technologies such as Next JS, Java, Spring, GCP are a plus
- You have led the decomposition and upgrading of large frontend codebases to micro frontends
- You are autonomous, taking full ownership of your work and driving your personal development. You value team success over personal success and have the ability to both uplift and up-level other engineers
- You hold yourself and others accountable, responsible for every last detail, every step of the way. You are a good communicator and an empathetic, attentive listener with the capability to anticipate the needs of partners
- You have a deep understanding of JS design patterns, data structures, and web architecture and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions
- You love working in an environment where you constantly deliver and iterate quickly. You have led large complex multi-team refactors working across domains frontend, backend, infrastructure
- You have experience working directly with partners to understand, document, and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations
What the job involves
- Spotify is hiring a Web engineer to join our Amplify Ad Formats Team
- We work at the intersection of advertising and user experience to connect millions of brands to billions of fans
- You’ll help us define and materialize our vision to improve the ad experience for our users and advertisers
- Contribute to a cross-functional team within Ad Formats throughout the development stack, solving problems at scale for our users
- Collaborate with engineering squads across Spotify, to support their knowledge and educate them on our portfolio of ad formats
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
- Promote sound engineering practices, drive work on technical strategy and roadmaps
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company values
- Innovative: We move fast and take big risks
- Sincere: We have no time for internal politics
- Passionate: We revel in what we do
- Collaborative: We recognise that we're all in this together
- Playful: We don't take ourselves too seriously
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
People progressing
Joined as a Conversion Manager in the Growth Team. Promoted three times over seven years to Senior Director - Head of Growth.
Joined as a Customer Advisor. Since then has had the role titles Senior Advisor, Content Associate, Team Coach, and Operations Manager - Primary Support. Hurst is now currently the Business Operations Manager of Music.
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