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Senior Full Stack Engineer - Audiobooks

Spotify

Key Facts

Remote From: 
Sweden
Full time
Senior (5-10 years)
English

Other Skills

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    Distributed Team Management
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    Communication
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    Mentorship

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Strong experience building web applications across the stack, with TypeScript and Java knowledge preferred
  • Comfortable designing and operating distributed systems and microservices architectures
  • Actively use AI tools (agents, code assistants, AI-powered reviews, generative prototyping) in daily work
  • Excellent communication skills and default to over-communication in a distributed team

Requirements:

  • Build and evolve features end-to-end across a React/TypeScript frontend and Java backend services that power the SFA platform at scale
  • Use AI-assisted development tools as a core part of your workflow for code generation, automated testing, and AI-powered code review
  • Solve scalability, reliability, and performance challenges as SFA grows toward 100K users
  • Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship impactful experiences for audiobook creators

Job description

Spotify for Authors (SFA) is the creator platform for the audiobook industry — a web application that gives publishers, authors, and narrators tools to manage their catalog, track performance, and distribute content on Spotify. We're scaling toward 100,000 users across a React/TypeScript frontend, Java backend services, and data pipelines that feed into Spotify's broader audiobook ecosystem.

SFA connects to Spotify's highest-priority bets: expanding audiobook access, building content creation tools, and shaping discovery surfaces. We operate with a "short toes" philosophy — contribution has no borders, quality is shared, and we use modern tools (including AI) to reduce toil and amplify creativity.


What You'll Do
  • Backend focused experience with hands-on frontend experience. 

  • Build and evolve features end-to-end across a React/TypeScript frontend and Java backend services that power the SFA platform at scale

  • Use AI-assisted development tools as a core part of your workflow for code generation, automated testing, and AI-powered code review

  • Help your squad build effective AI-assisted practices

  • Solve scalability, reliability, and performance challenges as SFA grows toward 100K users

  • Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship impactful experiences for audiobook creators

  • Author and collaborate on technical RFCs to document approaches and architectural trade-offs

  • Contribute to technical direction and help shape how we build within the SFA product area

  • Support and grow the team through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and thoughtful communication


    • Who You Are

  • You have strong experience building web applications across the stack. Typescript and Java knowledge preferred.

  • T-shaped: deep in your specialty, intensely curious about the rest.

  • You think product-first while building tech solutions

  • You're comfortable designing and operating distributed systems and microservices architectures

  • You actively use AI tools (agents, code assistants, AI-powered reviews, generative prototyping) in your daily work

  • You break ambiguous problems into clear, executable milestones and bias toward shipping

  • You're comfortable with modern infrastructure practices (CI/CD, containers, cloud platforms) and care about observability

  • You have excellent communication skills and default to over-communication in a distributed team


    • Where You'll Be
  • Distributed workforce, EU region. We collaborate across European and Eastern US time zones
    • 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.

    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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