Web Engineer, Podcast

About the Podcaster mission 
Spotify is a global community of over 250 million music fans, artists, and now podcasters. It's always been our mission to make audio more accessible for everyone, and create innovative ways for creators and fans to connect with each other.
The Podcast Mission is the team within Spotify responsible for building the best tools for podcast, video, and live creators. We have the platforms that help us deliver a great creator experience:  Spotify for Podcasters (the platform that allows you to create, distribute, monetize, and grow a podcast, all for free, while making it easy to understand and engage with your listeners on Spotify).
We've done a lot already, and we have no plans of slowing down. Come help us build the future of Podcast creation!

About the role
We are looking for thoughtful, well-rounded engineers to join our team and help build tools that hundreds of thousands of podcast creators use every month, powering 80% of all new podcasts globally. You will join a healthy and collaborative team, continuously improving our engineering practices and delivering innovative technology, all while keeping it fun.

We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also try to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

What you'll do:

 
Work with your engineering manager, product manager, and design counterparts to translate specs, wireframes, and designs to engineering tasks
 
Develop and maintain a performant, bug-free, and reusable library of web components written in React and Typescript
 
Ensure cross-browser and multi-platform compatibility
 
Run A/B tests to optimize conversion
 
Use your great communication and collaboration skills to work with other front- and back-end developers to push our team forward technically


Who you are:

 
You have 5+ years of experience building web applications and have demonstrated experience with React & Typescript, NextJS
 
You have experience building web products at scale in a high growth consumer-facing environment
 
You have experience with event-driven development
 
You have built performant apps that can scale
 
You have a passion for great, responsive web design
 
You have the ability to try things and iterate quickly
 
You are eager to learn and grow
 
You have a great work ethic and a willingness to try anything and everything
 
You possess excellent communication skills, and use them to document your work
 
You enjoy working autonomously, but you know when to ask for help
 
You work well with cross-functional, agile software development teams


Where you'll be:

 
We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
 
Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours
 
Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located that time zone
 
Prefer an office to work from instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here


The United States base range for this position is $140,246-175,308, 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.

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.