Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Fullstack Engineer role sits at a particularly relevant intersection in SaaS: internal developer platforms and the tooling that standardises how product teams ship software. Working on Backstage—an open-source developer experience platform with commercial applications—puts the focus on platform capabilities that many SaaS organisations adopt as they mature, from service catalogs to workflows that reduce friction across engineering.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps closely to the problems that recur across subscription software businesses: building shared infrastructure that scales across many teams, treating developer experience as a product, and balancing feature development with operational ownership. The emphasis on TypeScript/React/Node and on-call responsibility signals exposure to end-to-end service lifecycle thinking, which transfers well across SaaS roles that blend product engineering with reliability and maintainability.
This is best suited to engineers who like collaborating beyond engineering, care about usability for technical users, and are comfortable moving between front-end and back-end concerns. It will appeal to professionals who want their output to influence how other teams build and ship software, rather than focusing solely on a single customer-facing application surface.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
We are looking for Web Engineers to join the Backstage team, passionate about crafting the best developer experience for millions of developers in the software industry.
Leveraging our thriving open-source developer experience platform, Backstage, our teams are delivering high-impact external commercial products that truly up-level the industry standard of developer experience. Whether it’s a seasoned tech company that wants to build an internal developer portal using Backstage, or smaller companies that just want to quickly and easily increase developer satisfaction, or anything in between - our squads are shipping solutions that meet platform engineering needs all across the industry.
By joining us, you will help play an instrumental role in improving the experience of developers at our customer companies, in our fast-growing open-source community, and at Spotify internally. If you want to make a direct impact in helping Spotify become the industry leader in developer experience, this is the role for you.
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What You'll Do- Become a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional team. Use your experience of the frontend to design intelligent solutions that include front-end and back-end systems
- Develop and maintain features with TypeScript, React and NodeJS
- Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, potentially including taking part in an on-call rotation
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
- Collaborate closely with not only product and design partners, but also marketing, business development, customer success, and sales
- Promote sound engineering practices, drive work on technical strategy and roadmaps
- Deliver high-impact and high-visibility projects with the fast paced style of a startup, supported by the resources of a global company
Who You Are- You are experienced with modern React/JavaScript/CSS/HTML coding, testing, debugging and automation techniques
- You care about the user experience and are passionate about building user-friendly web applications.
- You are not afraid of digging into backend technologies, such as Node.js and Java
- You know and care about sound engineering practices, like continuous delivery and automated testing
- You care about your peers and supporting other engineering teams, as well as improving team processes
- You have impact through your communication skills and love sharing your knowledge with others, helping them grow
- Bonus points if you have a history of contribution or other direct engagement with open-source projects
Where You'll Be- This role is based in London or Stockholm.
- 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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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.
