Fullstack Engineer - Backstage

We are looking for a collaborative Fullstack Engineer to join our Backstage product teams focused on creating the best developer experience for Spotify: both open source and commercial.

The Backstage squads are functions within the Platform Developer Experience R&D Studio aiming to deliver an open and thriving ecosystem trusted by millions of engineers. We envision hundreds of companies collaborating to build the best developer experience in the world. Our squads are also aiming to lead Spotify into a new era of infrastructure based on an open foundation, resulting in an industry-leading developer experience. By joining us, you will help play an instrumental role in improving the experience of over 2000+ developers at Spotify as well as participate in a growing open-source community. If you want to make a direct impact in helping Spotify become the industry leader in developer experience, this is the role for you.

What you’ll do

• Working closely with internal customers and our open-source community
• Build and operate infrastructure, toolset, and deployment pipelines
• You’ll collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems, creating a top-of-the-line engineering experience for our open-source community and internal Spotify engineering teams
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, potentially including taking part in an on-call rotation
• Advocate for the unification of infrastructure, tools, and languages where clients are similar in structure to lower the cost of ownership and increase the speed of the adopting teams
• Promote sound engineering practices, drive work on technical strategy and roadmaps
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
• Works as part of a multi-functional team on Backstage across the whole development stack, solving problems at scale for both our internal and open-source end users

Who you are

• You’re familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems and enjoy seeing millions of users running your code
• You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions
• You are supporting peers and engineering teams, as well as fostering the best engineering practices
• You have some familiarity with large-scale open-source projects, bonus points if you have a history of contribution or other direct engagement with open-source projects.
• You have an impact through your communication skills and love sharing your knowledge with others, helping them grow
• You have experience working within large-scale systems across various projects
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery and automated testing
• You enjoy working with React, TypeScript, and Java, and interacting with backend systems

Where you’ll be

• 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.
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location.
• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard Time zone for collaboration.

$122,716 - $175,308 a year

The United States base range for this position is $122 716 -$175 308 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, a monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. 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.

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.

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