Senior Fullstack Engineer - Data Platform

Mission Statement

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.

About the Team

You’ll join the Data Platform within the Platform mission, where we build the foundations that power how Spotify understands user behavior at scale. Our team owns the SDKs used across iOS, Android, and web to collect user behavior data, and we build the tools and APIs that make instrumentation seamless for developers. Working closely with engineers, data scientists, and product partners, we enable teams across Spotify to make better, data-informed decisions that shape the listening experience for millions.

Build and evolve internal tools that help developers instrument and understand user behavior data

Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, designers, and product managers to create intuitive and scalable developer experiences

Design and maintain APIs that integrate smoothly with Spotify’s web clients, including desktop and TV platforms

Evolve and maintain JavaScript SDKs to support new capabilities within the user behavior infrastructure

Identify friction points in adoption and integration, and continuously improve the developer experience

Contribute to backend systems and services that support data collection and processing at scale

Take part in an on-call rotation to support the reliability and performance of the platform

You are experienced working across frontend, backend, and infrastructure in a fullstack environment

You have strong experience with JavaScript and TypeScript, including modern development, testing, and debugging practices

You are comfortable building applications using React and working with backend systems in Java

You care deeply about developer experience and enjoy building intuitive, reliable APIs and tools

You have a quality mindset and think holistically about software development, from coding to deployment and monitoring

You have experience building user-friendly web applications and understand what makes a great user experience

You are curious and collaborative, and enjoy working with cross-functional partners to solve complex problems

You have exposure to areas such as GCP, Kubernetes, gRPC, protobuf, or large-scale data pipelines

You are comfortable leveraging AI tools (such as Claude Code) to enhance development workflows