What You'll Do
- Build, maintain, and evolve backend services and APIs that support advertising data platforms, content and ad categorization, and AI-powered initiatives.
- Lead development on front-end products owned by the squad, including tools for moderation, review, and advertiser-facing workflows.
- Build and support an annotation application that allows moderators to flag sensitive podcast content, enabling trust and safety at scale.
- Deliver UX optimizations that improve ad and content review efficiency and effectiveness.
- Develop interfaces that allow advertisers and internal users to interact with AI-powered creative and categorization systems.
- Collaborate with engineering squads across Spotify to provide high-quality data solutions, shared knowledge, and best practices.
Who You Are
- You are an experienced Full Stack Engineer with 5+ years of professional experience
- You have experience building and maintaining APIs and services at scale.
- You have strong experience with Java and Spring
- You have strong experience with JavaScript. Additional experience with tools and technologies such as ReactJS, NodeJS, NextJS, and GraphQL are a plus.
- You have some experience with data engineering concepts and tools (e.g., Scala, large-scale data pipelines).
- You have experience with GCP, distributed systems, machine learning platforms, or generative AI integrations
- You have a strong grasp of design patterns, data structures, and distributed and web architectures.
- You care deeply about observability, reliability, and quality, and you apply engineering best practices including testing automation.
- You have experience leading or contributing to large codebase refactors, including microservices or micro-frontend architectures.
- You are autonomous, take ownership of your work, and actively drive your personal growth.
- You value team success over personal success and enjoy uplifting and mentoring other engineers.
- You are a strong communicator and empathetic collaborator who can anticipate partner needs and work effectively across disciplines.
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, it can be within the North America region in which we have a work location.
- This team collaborates across the Eastern Standard time zone, Pacific Standard time zone, and Australian Eastern time zone.
