Fullstack Engineer - Music
Role summary
Spotify's Music Mission team is seeking a Fullstack Engineer to contribute to the design, development, and architecture of end-to-end features for music creators and fans. This role involves building and maintaining distributed systems for high-traffic product moments, working with modern frontend technologies like React and TypeScript, and backend systems using Java. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams, improve engineering practices, and support system evolution. The position offers remote work flexibility within North America and requires collaboration within the Eastern Standard time zone.
The Music Mission team owns Spotify’s end to end proposition for music creators and the experiences they create for fans. The team is dedicated to building tools and services to enable creation, promotion, expression, and monetization at scale. Music Expression is part of Spotify’s Music Mission, focused on helping artists and fans connect in more meaningful, creative ways. We build the experiences behind some of Spotify’s most impactful moments—from Spotify Wrapped messages reaching hundreds of millions of fans to record-breaking album pre-release campaigns. You’ll join a collaborative team that enjoys tackling ambitious challenges and turning ideas into experiences used at global scale.
What You'll Do
- Contribute to the design and development of end-to-end features across frontend and backend systems.
- Help shape architecture decisions that support scalable, reliable, and high-performing user experiences.
- Build and maintain distributed systems that power high-traffic product moments.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to bring new features to life.
- Improve engineering practices, code quality, and team workflows through thoughtful contributions.
- Support the continuous evolution of our systems to meet growing user and artist needs.
Who You Are
- You are experienced in building backend applications using Java.
- You are comfortable working with modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript.
- You understand how to design and build systems across the full stack, including APIs and distributed. architectures.
- You care about writing clean, maintainable code and improving how teams work together.
- You are curious and open to learning, and you enjoy exploring new approaches to solving problems.
- You communicate ideas clearly and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners.
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North Americas region as long as we have a work location.
- This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
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.
Sample Spotify interview questions
- 1
Design a Spotify friends activity feed
system designaverage - 2
Design a data pipeline for Spotify's recommendations.
system designaverage - 3
Design an Ad Banner Delivery System
system designmedium - 4
How would you apply algorithms to Spotify functionality? Implement an existing feature during a system design exercise.
codingaverage - 5
Design the backend architecture for Spotify
system designmedium
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