Web Engineer - AdCo
Role summary
Spotify's Advertising Product & Technology team seeks a Web Engineer to build a next-generation advertising platform for audio and video. This role focuses on creating high-quality, user-centric experiences for Spotify's Ads Manager, supporting advertisers and creators. The engineer will work across the full stack, from API contracts to end-user interfaces, ensuring scalable, secure, and accessible campaign management tools. Responsibilities include developing web applications with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript, collaborating with cross-functional teams, defining API contracts, and improving frontend codebase quality. The position emphasizes a quality-focused mindset, customer experience, and collaborative problem-solving within a remote, North America-based team operating in the Eastern time zone.
What You'll Do
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Develop and maintain web applications and user interfaces using technologies like React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript.
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Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to build features that enhance advertiser workflows and experience, always keeping the end customer's needs at the center
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Define and negotiate API contracts with internal partner teams to ensure clean integration points that support long-term scalability and new feature rollouts in Ads Manager platform.
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Work as part of a cross-functional team within AdCo, solving problems at scale for our users and thinking critically about product impact, not just shipping features, but understanding why they matter and how they'll scale
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Partner with other engineering teams across Spotify to support adoption and understanding of our Ads Manager platform.
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Help improve the structure, performance, and maintainability of our frontend codebase.
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Participate in code reviews, testing, and documentation to ensure code quality and knowledge sharing.
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Contribute to team discussions about technical direction and frontend best practices, with guidance from senior engineers.
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Support Spotify’s engineering standards for security, accessibility, and inclusive design.
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Take advantage of growth opportunities like hack time, internal trainings, tech talks, and peer mentorship.
Who You Are
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You have a quality-focused mindset and are interested in all parts of software development: ideation, coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, experimentation, and iteration.
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You have a solid foundation in frontend development, and hands-on experience with React or a similar framework.
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You are comfortable using TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern frontend tooling (e.g., Webpack, testing libraries, CI/CD).
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You care deeply about the customer experience, both for advertisers using our platform and for internal teams consuming your work, and you enjoy collaborating with designers to create intuitive interfaces.
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You’re a strong communicator and collaborative teammate who values feedback, pairing, and collective problem solving.
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You take initiative and ownership over your work. You drive toward outcomes, understand the end goal, and think about product impact and scalability, not just task completion. You also know when to ask for help and guidance.
Where You'll Be
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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.
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This team operates within the Eastern time zone for collaboration.
The United States base range for this position is $107,483 to $153,547, 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, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Sample Spotify interview questions
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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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