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Frontend Engineer, Ads Product & Tech

New York, New York, United StatesRemoteFull Time$132,949–$189,927 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Spotify's Advertising Product & Technology team is seeking a Frontend Engineer to build and evolve their next-generation advertising platform. This role focuses on creating intuitive, scalable, and high-performing web applications that simplify complex advertising data for advertisers. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team, design reusable UI components, integrate APIs, and ensure high standards for performance, accessibility, and usability. The ideal candidate has experience with modern JavaScript frameworks like React, API integration (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), and a strong understanding of HTML, CSS, and frontend best practices. This is a remote position within the Americas region.

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.

The Ads Data Frontend team builds intuitive, scalable, and high-performing experiences that power Spotify’s advertising ecosystem. We focus on making complex data simple—helping advertisers access insights across measurement, reporting, and audience tools so they can make confident, data-driven decisions. You’ll work closely with engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to shape how advertising data comes to life across Spotify.

What You'll Do:

  • Work day-to-day in a cross-functional team to build and evolve Spotify’s Ads web applications
  • Create intuitive frontend experiences that make complex data easy to understand and act on
  • Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate APIs and data services into scalable user interfaces
  • Design and maintain reusable UI components and modern frontend architecture
  • Continuously improve performance, accessibility, and usability across applications
  • Contribute to technical design, planning, and delivery of scalable solutions
  • Share knowledge and contribute to a strong, collaborative frontend engineering culture
  • Who You Are:

  • You have experience building modern web applications using JavaScript, TypeScript, and frameworks like React
  • You are comfortable working with APIs such as REST, GraphQL, or gRPC
  • You understand how to build accessible, responsive, and user-friendly interfaces using HTML and CSS
  • You know how to handle real-world UI challenges like loading states, pagination, and error handling
  • You have experience with testing, debugging, and continuous delivery practices
  • You care about performance, usability, and creating high-quality user experiences
  • You collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners and communicate clearly
  • You take ownership of your work, stay curious, and contribute to team success
  • Where You'll Be:

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the Americas region as long as we have a work location.
  • This team operates within the Eastern time zone for collaboration.
  • The United States base range for this position is $132,949 - $189,927, 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.

    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

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    • 2

      Design a data pipeline for Spotify's recommendations.

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    • 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.

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    • 5

      Design the backend architecture for Spotify

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