Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role stands out because it sits at the intersection of platform engineering and monetisation, a common pressure point in modern SaaS and subscription businesses. Building and operating an Ads API and its primary data store is foundational work that directly influences how reliably internal teams can ship ad products and how consistently advertisers can transact at scale. The scope implies a mature, high-traffic environment where data integrity and latency are product concerns, not just infrastructure details.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps closely to skills that transfer across product-led companies: designing durable APIs, stewarding shared data contracts, and making trade-offs between performance, consistency, and developer experience. The emphasis on observability, reliability, and operational excellence reflects how SaaS organisations increasingly differentiate through uptime and predictable platform behaviour. Collaboration with multiple squads also builds the kind of cross-platform influence that becomes important for senior engineering paths.
It is best suited to an engineer who enjoys owning core systems that many teams depend on and who is comfortable improving existing platforms rather than only building greenfield features. The role will likely fit someone who likes deep technical problem-solving, clear interface design, and pragmatic engineering practices in a large-scale SaaS environment.
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
Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.
Spotify is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join the Spotify Advertising Team. Our team is responsible for maintaining our Ads API and primary data store: if you’re passionate about data availability, integrity and performance at scale, come join us!
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What You'll Do
- Collaborate with band members on the Ads API and Data Store team to enhance our API and data ecosystem, including ingestion, consumption, transformation and storage.
- Collaborate with engineering squads across Spotify, helping them enhance their products by providing first class data solutions, knowledge and education.
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
- Improve operational excellence and share your knowledge across the company to promote best practices.
Who You Are
- You’re an experienced Java engineer with 5+ years of working experience on backend services as scale.
- You have built and maintained APIs at scale.
- You have some experience with Data Engineering with Scala.
- Additional tools and technologies such as Spring, GCP, NextJS, GraphQL are a plus.
- You have a strong grasp of design patterns, data structures, and distributed architecture.
- You care about observability & reliability and have experience with engineering best practices and testing automation to build quality into software and systems.
- You value team success over personal success and have the ability to both uplift and up-level other engineers.
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, it can be within the North America region in which we have a work location.
- This team collaborates across the Pacific time zone, Australian, and Eastern time zone.
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The United States base range for this position is $132,949.00 - 189,927.00 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, 13 paid flexible holidays. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history 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.
