Senior Full Stack Engineer (Audiobooks)

Company: Spotify
Apply for the Senior Full Stack Engineer (Audiobooks)
Location: London
Job Description:

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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Posted: June 1st, 2026