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Full Stack Engineer, Music

Spotify

New York, NYFull-time$102–146K/yrPosted 1y agoStill listed today

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Compensation
$102–146K/yr
Location
New York, NY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Spotify is seeking a Full Stack Engineer for its Authorization team in the Music Tech Platform organization. The team builds products that help creators set up and secure authorization within their teams and organizations. The role focuses on backend services and frontend tools for team management and authorization, supporting creators and Spotify’s users. It is based in New York City, with three in-person office days per week and flexibility to work from home.

Skills & qualifications

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Skills

Java (Programming Language)React.jsGraphQLTypeScriptSoftware ArchitectureCollaborationMarket EnvironmentReactCode QualityEnd-to-End Experience DesignBusiness ImpactAdaptability

Qualifications

Product-Driven Environment Experience

Benefits

Parental Leave
Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

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Spotify is looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join the Authorization team in our Music Tech Platform organization, within the Music Mission. In the Authorization Team, we build consumer and industry-facing products that provide creators ways to set up and secure their authorization within their teams and organization. If you’re interested in building out the next revolution in the music industry and helping artists succeed in their careers, come join us!

Location

  • New York

Job type Permanent

As a Full Stack Engineer on this team, you will tackle complex backend and frontend problems surrounding surfacing team management and authorization. You will be working on tools and services used by every vertical at Spotify (Music, Podcasts, Audiobooks etc.) You will build secure, performant, and reliable solutions to our 350+ million active users on behalf of millions of artists and creators. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences Spotify and the way creators connect to their fans!

What You'll Do

  • Design, develop, deploy, and maintain backend services and frontend tools that serve team management to millions of creators.
  • Maintain and improve our onboarding processes which allows creators to gain access to their content and profiles.
  • Understanding our content mapping processes and making sure we are ready for constantly increasing scale.
  • Learn and adopt best practices and design patterns.
  • Opportunities to T-shape into data engineering and data analysis.
  • Work in multi-functional agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate, and deliver on new product objectives.

Who You Are

  • You have good knowledge of Java for backend services and experience working with modern web technologies such as React, GraphQL, and TypeScript. You care about shipping high-quality code.

  • Passionate about delivering end-to-end experiences and care about software architecture across the frontend, backend, and the APIs that glue them together.

  • You have professional experience working in a product-driven environment.

  • You deeply value collaborations within and across teams to achieve the best outcome for the organization.

  • You put business impact forward and understand the tradeoff between a technically complex solution vs. a simpler solution that meets different stages of product requirements.

  • You are open-minded about changes and embrace them with an optimistic approach.

  • 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. We ask that you come in 3 times per week.

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Our global benefits

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 - fully paid - 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.

Learn about life at Spotify

The United States base range for this position is $ 102,158 - $ 145,941, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, a monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. 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.

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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How this job compares

Set against the 3,212 open Full-Stack Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$102–146K/yr
  • New York median$165–238K/yr331 salary ranges
  • US median$147–220K/yr2,581 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $124K, is 38% below the New York median midpoint ($200K) — in the lowest quarter of Full-Stack Engineer salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 391 open Full-Stack Engineer jobs in New York and 3,212 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
Full-Stack Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 6 years (2,825 postings).
Education
1,267 of the 3,212 open Full-Stack Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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