Senior Fullstack Engineer

Who you are

• You have 5+ years of experience building scalable fullstack applications in production environments
• You are comfortable working across frontend and backend technologies and understand how they fit together to create reliable products
• You have experience with APIs, distributed systems, and modern web application architecture
• You take ownership of the software you build, from implementation through production health and ongoing improvements
• You have experience designing systems and influencing technical direction
• You communicate clearly and effectively through documentation and collaboration in distributed teams
• You write clean, maintainable code that enables others to build with confidence
• You use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully and validate outputs with sound engineering judgment
• You navigate ambiguity with confidence and make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• You enjoy mentoring others, sharing knowledge, and helping teammates grow
• You are curious, proactive, and motivated by continuous learning and experimentation

What the job involves

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home
• The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe
• Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work, creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers
• Our team builds Groove, a platform that helps thousands of employees plan, coordinate, and deliver work across Spotify
• From initiative tracking to dependency management and collaborative planning, Groove helps teams stay aligned and execute with confidence
• We're a small, cross-functional engineering team focused on building thoughtful tools that reduce friction and help people do their best work
• We move quickly, learn from user feedback, and continuously improve the experiences we build
• Build and evolve Groove, a fullstack platform that supports planning, collaboration, and execution across Spotify
• Design and deliver features including initiative tracking, planning workflows, and dependency management
• Work across the stack using React, TypeScript, Java, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to build end-to-end solutions
• Partner closely with product managers and designers to understand user needs and create intuitive, effective experiences
• Ensure reliability through testing, monitoring, and continuous improvement in production
• Participate in an on-call rotation and help respond to production incidents when needed
• Improve the performance, scalability, and maintainability of frontend and backend systems
• Use AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity while maintaining ownership of quality, correctness, and outcomes
• Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-impact features across the stack
• Own problems end-to-end, from shaping ambiguous requirements through to production-ready solutions
• Help define and evolve architecture across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
• Mentor engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar across the team

Benefits

• Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
• Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
• Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
• All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
• Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs