Frontend Engineer, Music

Spotify AB; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave

401(k) retirement plan

Meal allowance

Paid time off (23 days)

Flexible holidays

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Spotify AB is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Muse to help build and scale the Rights Center. Based in New York City, you will collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver an intuitive, performant frontend experience for rights holders.

You will design responsive interfaces, manage complex data flows, and contribute to cross-functional product discovery while maintaining strong testing and accessibility standards.

Qualifications

• Experience building modern web apps with TypeScript and React.
• Strong state management and data-flow design.
• Experience integrating APIs such as REST, gRPC, or GraphQL.
• Design responsive, accessible interfaces with good UX.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the Spotify Rights Center web application for rightsholders.
• Collaborate with PMs, designers, and backend engineers to deliver high-quality UX.
• Develop complex workflows for large datasets and multi-step processes.
• Integrate frontend with multiple backend services to enable scalable data flows.
• Write performant, accessible frontend code using modern practices.
• Partner with backend engineers to design evolving APIs.
• Contribute to product discovery and ideation with cross-functional teams.
• Improve frontend architecture and coding standards.

Skills

TypeScript

React

State management

API integration

Responsive UI

Accessibility

Testing (unit/integration/e2e)

Ownership

Job description

The Rights Systems team builds and operates Spotify Rights Center (SRC), Spotify’s rights management platform that enables the company and its partners to identify, manage, and enforce music licensing rights across creator- and artist-generated content.

Comparable in scope to YouTube’s Content ID, SRC is designed specifically for Spotify’s ecosystem and plays an important role in supporting new formats like video and other emerging content types. Over the past year the team launched SRC from inception to a fully operational production platform, now live and used by real rightsholders.

The platform includes automated content scanning, policy management, enforcement pipelines, dispute workflows, and analytics. The team has grown from a single squad to three squads (approximately 29 engineers, designers, and product specialists) and continues to scale as a strategic investment area for Spotify over the next several years.

What You'll Do

• Build and evolve the Spotify Rights Center web application used by music labels, publishers, and other rightsholders to manage how their content appears on Spotify
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver intuitive and high-quality user experiences
• Develop complex workflows that support large datasets, territory-level permissions, and multi-step processes for managing rights and disputes
• Integrate frontend systems with multiple backend services to support scalable and reliable data flows
• Write performant, accessible, and well-tested frontend code using modern development practices
• Partner with backend engineers to design and evolve APIs that support the needs of the product
• Contribute to product discovery and ideation with engineers, researchers, and product specialists
• Help improve engineering practices and advocate for strong frontend architecture and quality standards
• Support a collaborative team environment that encourages learning, experimentation, and growth

Who You Are

• You have experience building modern web applications using TypeScript and React or a similar framework
• You are comfortable managing complex application state and data flows
• You have experience integrating frontend systems with APIs such as REST, gRPC, or GraphQL
• You understand how to design responsive interfaces that handle loading states, pagination, streaming data, and error handling gracefully
• You care deeply about creating intuitive and accessible user experiences
• You have experience building enterprise or B2B applications with complex workflows, permissions, and large datasets
• You write high-quality code and validate it using modern testing approaches such as unit, integration, or end-to-end testing
• You take ownership of solutions from requirements through deployment and iteration based on user feedback
• You enjoy learning new domains and problem spaces and collaborating with teammates to solve meaningful problems

Where You'll Be

• This role is based in New York City
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home

Learn about life at Spotify

The United States base range for this position is $133,000 –$190,000 USD, 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, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. This range encompasses multiple levels, and leveling is determined during the interview process based on relevant experience 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.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization, Muse