The opportunity
We design Spotify's consumer experience — end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world.
What you'll do
Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and development of systems that: enable and enhance partner and platform experiences across devices and integrations
Drive complex technical initiatives that span multiple studios or a full: mission — particularly where coordination cost, architectural sprawl, or competing local optimizations are part of the problem
Create leverage by unifying fragmented approaches, retiring duplicative: systems, and establishing the standards and platforms that enable multiple studios move faster without reinventing foundations — judging where consolidation creates leverage and where local autonomy is the better choice
Define and influence technical strategy across organizational boundaries and: bring other senior engineers along in executing it
Collaborate with engineering, product and design leaders across the: Experience Mission and beyond to identify shared opportunities, align technical direction and reduce duplication
Shape how AI transforms the software development lifecycle and pioneer: AI-native workflows and capabilities that bridge engineering, product, and design
What they're looking for
- You have deep experience designing, building and operating distributed systems that serve users at scale
- You have a strong track record of technical leadership: influencing and shaping architecture decisions across teams, and driving organizational change in how software gets built
- You thrive in complex, ambiguous problem spaces and can identify where: technical investment will create the greatest leverage across teams and systems
- You care deeply about reliable, high-quality user experiences powered by data and personalization
- You actively explore how AI reshapes how we build, not just what we build,: and can turn emerging capabilities into practical improvements in how teams work
- You bring a thoughtful, collaborative, inclusive mindset and actively contribute to a positive team culture
