Senior Full-Stack Engineer, AI-Powered Audiobook Platform

Requirements

• You have strong experience building web applications across the stack. Typescript and Java knowledge preferred

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• T-shaped: deep in your specialty, intensely curious about the rest

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• You think product-first while building tech solutions

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• You’re comfortable designing and operating distributed systems and microservices architectures

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• You actively use AI tools (agents, code assistants, AI-powered reviews, generative prototyping) in your daily work

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• You break ambiguous problems into clear, executable milestones and bias toward shipping

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• You’re comfortable with modern infrastructure practices (CI/CD, containers, cloud platforms) and care about observability

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• You have excellent communication skills and default to over-communication in a distributed team

What the job involves

• SFA connects to Spotify’s highest-priority bets: expanding audiobook access, building content creation tools, and shaping discovery surfaces. We operate with a “short toes” philosophy — contribution has no borders, quality is shared, and we use modern tools (including AI) to reduce toil and amplify creativity

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• Backend focused experience with hands-on frontend experience

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• Build and evolve features end-to-end across a React/TypeScript frontend and Java backend services that power the SFA platform at scale

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• Use AI-assisted development tools as a core part of your workflow for code generation, automated testing, and AI-powered code review

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• Help your squad build effective AI-assisted practices

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• Solve scalability, reliability, and performance challenges as SFA grows toward 100K users

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• Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship impactful experiences for audiobook creators

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• Author and collaborate on technical RFCs to document approaches and architectural trade-offs

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• Contribute to technical direction and help shape how we build within the SFA product area

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• Support and grow the team through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and thoughtful communication

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