Senior Fullstack Engineer - Messaging Platform

Spotify; United States; Remote; USD 164,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave (6 months)

401(k)

Meal allowance

Paid days off

Flexible holidays

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Senior Engineer to help build intuitive, reliable tools for Quicksilver, its multi-channel messaging platform used to reach listeners at scale.

You will own frontend features in React/TypeScript, collaborate across product and design, and contribute to backend contracts and data pipelines. This role supports localization and multi-market launches, with a flexible North America work setup and EST collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience building complex web applications with TypeScript and modern UI frameworks.
• Familiarity with state management and GraphQL/Apollo.
• Experience building tools/platforms for internal users.
• Comfort reading/modifying Java services and API contracts (gRPC/Protobuf/REST).
• Ability to work across frontend and backend systems and navigate cloud/data tools (GCP, BigQuery).

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Quicksilver UI for multi-channel messaging across in-app emails and push notifications.
• Own frontend features end-to-end from design to implementation.
• Collaborate across teams to shape features based on operator needs.
• Improve developer experience with testing, performance, and tooling improvements.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and platform direction.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Frontend development

GraphQL

Apollo

REST APIs

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Java

GKE

BigQuery

gRPC

Protobuf

Job description

The Subscriptions Mission builds and scales the products, platforms, and business models that convert free listeners into lifelong Premium subscribers. We focus on driving acquisition, optimizing conversion, improving retention, and delivering seamless commerce experiences that fuel Spotify’s growth and bring fans closer to the creators they love.

Spotify's messaging platform reaches over 1.4 billion users and delivers tens of billions of messages across email, push, and in-app channels. Beacon is the team behind Quicksilver, the internal platform operators use to create, localize, target, and launch those messages. We're looking for a Senior Engineer to help us build intuitive, reliable tools that power how Spotify communicates with listeners at scale.

What You'll Do

• Build and evolve Quicksilver UI, Spotify's multi-channel messaging platform, where operators author, preview, and deliver in-app messages, emails, and push notifications across markets and locales.

• Own frontend features end-to-end, from component design and implementation in React and TypeScript through server-side creative rendering.

• Work across the stack when needed, including debugging Java and Apollo services, evolving gRPC, Protobuf, and REST API contracts, tracing data through BigQuery, and improving pipeline output.

• Support multi-market and localization workflows, helping creatives render reliably across locales and enabling smooth new-market launches.

• Partner with product and design to shape features and improvements based on operator needs.

• Improve the developer experience through stronger testing infrastructure, build performance, component documentation, and integration tooling.

• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction as the platform evolves.

Who You Are

• You have experience building complex web applications with TypeScript and modern UI frameworks, including React or similar technologies.

• You understand state management, GraphQL and Apollo, component-scoped styling, and reusable component-library design.

• You have built tools or platforms for internal users and care about creating intuitive, reliable operator experiences.

• You are comfortable working across frontend and backend systems, including reading or modifying Java services and working with API contracts such as gRPC, Protobuf, or REST.

• You can work with Scala/Python when pipelines or APIs need attention and navigate cloud infrastructure and data tools such as GCP, GKE, BigQuery, or GCS.

• You make thoughtful decisions about technical debt and can clearly communicate the tradeoffs between maintaining, improving, and migrating systems.

• You have experience working across shared codebases and understand the collaboration needed when teams depend on common components and services.

• You may also bring experience with data pipelines, LLM applications such as RAG or vector search, or server-side rendering.

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North Americas region as long as we have a work location.

• This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is 164,448–234,926 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. 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.