Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role sits at the intersection of SaaS product engineering and platform governance. Spotify Rights Center is a production B2B web application that external partners rely on to manage licensing outcomes, which makes the frontend more than presentation layer work. The problem space is defined by enterprise-grade workflows, fine-grained permissions, and high-volume data, all common in mature SaaS platforms where reliability and clarity directly affect customer operations.
For a SaaS career, the value comes from building user-facing systems that must scale with both product scope and organizational complexity. The work spans API integration across multiple services, state management for multi-step processes, and quality practices around performance, accessibility, and testing. That combination translates well to other SaaS environments where teams iterate on core surfaces while maintaining contract stability and observability across distributed backends.
The role is best suited to engineers who enjoy owning end-to-end frontend outcomes and collaborating tightly with product, design, and backend counterparts. It will appeal to those who prefer complex, domain-heavy applications over marketing sites, and who like refining architecture and workflows over time based on real partner usage and feedback.
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
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.
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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
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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.
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This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
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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.
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.
