Senior Staff Engineer, Platform & Partner Experience

Spotify AB; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning opportunities

Equity incentives

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Flexible holidays

Job summary

Spotify AB is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for Platform & Partner Experience (PPX) to advance how partner and platform experiences scale across devices and integrations. You will work with platform, infrastructure, and product teams to build shared foundations and streamlined architecture.

You will shape AI-powered workflows in software development, drive strategic tech initiatives across studios, and guide teams through architectural decisions while maintaining a strong focus on reliable,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Strong track record of technical leadership—shaping architecture decisions across teams.
• Thrives in complex, ambiguous spaces and identifies where technical investment adds leverage.
• Cares about reliable, high‑quality user experiences powered by data and personalization.
• Explores AI opportunities to transform how we work and deliver improvements.

Responsibilities

• 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 spanning multiple studios or missions, addressing coordination costs and architectural sprawl.
• Unify fragmented approaches, retire duplicative systems, and establish standards that accelerate multi-studio work without sacrificing foundations.
• Define and influence technical strategy across organizational boundaries and mentor other senior engineers.
• Collaborate with engineering, product and design leaders to identify opportunities, align direction and reduce duplication.
• Shape how AI transforms the software development lifecycle and pioneer AI-native workflows and capabilities.

Job description

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. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints — from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.

Platform & Partner Experience (PPX) sits within the Experience Mission, shaping how Spotify shows up across devices, platforms, and partner ecosystems. We build the foundations that power seamless integrations — from smart speakers to cars to AI agents — while ensuring every interaction feels personal, reliable, and unmistakably Spotify.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll advance how our systems power partner experiences at scale, tackling complex challenges that span teams, systems and organizational boundaries. You will work closely with platform, infrastructure, and product teams across the company to create shared foundations, streamline our architecture and unlock new experiences for our users and partners.

What You Will 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

Who You Are

• 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

Where You Will Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best. For this role, you can be based anywhere in EMEA where Spotify has a work location (excluding France due to on-call restrictions).
• The team collaborates within Central European and GMT time zones.

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off - for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.