Staff iOS Engineer
New York, NY, United States
Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.
As a Staff Engineer, you will architect, design, develop, deploy and operate features that are used by millions of users. You‘ll be the technical leader for our on surface ad experiences , contributing hands-on , while leading technical projects spanning multiple teams. We are looking for someone who can drive development and delivery, build sound architecture and foster best practices when it comes to development, as well as mentor other engineers to grow. What You'll Do Be a leader of the Spotify engineering community, driving and influencing our architecture across the company.
Drive best engineering practices within your team(s) by defining and teaching them.
Acquire broad knowledge about our topology, in particular, our numerous platforms and partner integrations to be able to effectively represent them in conversations internally and externally.
Work hands-on in a team solving technical problems to deliver great value to users.
Work efficiently with legacy code and suggest incremental improvements.
Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your domain of expertise.
Be a technical thought partner to department leadership and build trust with our strategic partners.
Facilitate collaboration between teams, departments, engineers, product managers, designers, and product insights specialists.
Who You Are Have proven experience of leading technical projects spanning multiple teams.
Have strong mobile skills (iOS) with a mastery in Objective-C and Swift. C++ is a plus.
Have several years of working experience in building user-friendly, data-rich, scalable applications.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and have the ability to exercise sound judgment and decision-making abilities.
A strong communicator and can easily explain a complex technical architecture to different audiences.
Have extensive experience working hands-on as a Software Engineer in an Agile environment.
Have a detailed understanding of software development at scale, constraints and challenges, and apply them to systems and software development.
Show a deep knowledge of how to write robust, maintainable applications, and a reasonable understanding of how to build and work with distributed high-volume backend servers.
Experienced in identifying, debugging and resolving complex production issues.
Professional in mentoring engineering teams and encouraging best methodologies.
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 in 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 $185,545-$265,064, 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.
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