iOS Engineer - Data Platform

Spotify; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks an expert iOS Engineer to join a dynamic team focused on building innovative tools for understanding user behavior. This role involves crafting scalable, maintainable code and contributing to impactful engineering practices. You will collaborate with talented developers and product managers to enhance the user experience for millions of listeners. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this forward-thinking company values your unique perspectives and experiences. Join us in revolutionizing the way the world listens to music and help shape the future of audio technology.

Qualifications

• Experience as an iOS/Android Engineer, preferably at scale.
• Deep understanding of modern iOS development and tools.

Responsibilities

• Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code.
• Innovate at a high pace to support development at scale.

Skills

iOS Development

Objective-C

Swift

Android Development

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Tools

Bazel

Kotlin

Java

BigQuery

C++

Job description

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify.

We are looking for an expert iOS Engineer who could help us build tools that assist Spotify's experts in understanding the needs of our listeners. You will be mostly working on the SDKs that we build for our engineers and data scientists to help them analyze user behavior data to help build the best experience for Spotify users.

What You'll Do

• Innovate at a high pace to support development at scale and become a valued member of an autonomous team of developers, designers, and product managers.
• Play an important part in our engineering practices and develop impactful solutions.
• Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code that will scale across a number of projects and distributed engineering teams.
• Join dozens of other engineers and help to craft the direction of iOS development at Spotify, to bring the happiness of music to millions of users.

Who You Are

• You are a good communicator, an inclusive colleague and a phenomenal teammate.
• You have experience as an iOS/Android Engineer, preferably at scale.
• Experience with Bazel, Kotlin, Java, BigQuery, Android, C++, and build/productivity tools would be a bonus.
• You have a deep understanding of modern iOS development and tools.
• You know how to write readable, maintainable, performant object-oriented code in Objective-C and Swift.
• You care about quality, testing practices and the overall performance of the product.
• You have an excellent ability to learn, and are eager to expand your areas of expertise.

Where You'll Be

• You’ll be based in our Stockholm or London office.
• 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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
• Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located in these time zones.
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences.
• Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.

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.