Hybrid Fullstack Engineer – Platform Developer Experience

at Spotify

• Job title: Fullstack Engineer – Platform Developer Experience
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: $107,483 - $153,547 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, ElasticSearch, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Node.js, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Fullstack Engineer improving developer experience at Spotify by enhancing usability and integrating AI tools. Collaborating on products for engineers worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Help define and deliver Spotify’s AI developer experience by authoring and evolving agent context
• Contribute to skills and workflows that make agent behavior more reliable, predictable, and useful in production environments
• Work on context services built on modern model-to-tool protocols (e.g., MCP) to support AI-driven systems.
• Build and improve the TechDocs platform experience, including its supporting services and tooling (e.g., MkDocs-based build containers and the documentation-serving backend proxy)
• Build and operate developer tooling that is easy to adopt, including CLI-driven onboarding
• Debug and resolve issues across the stack, from local developer environments to CI pipelines, containerized builds, and cloud-hosted services
• Take operational responsibility for services and tooling owned by the team, which may include participating in an on-call rotation
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders across Spotify to understand pain points and deliver improvements that scale across teams
• Promote sound engineering practices such as testing, incremental rollouts, reliability, and clear documentation

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience working with TypeScript and Node.
• Exposure to building or integrating LLM-powered coding agents, including tool use, planning loops, and multi-step workflows.
• Familiarity with search design patterns (e.g., vector search systems, elasticsearch, indexing strategies)
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems, and deploying services using containerized tooling (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping well-scoped features end-to-end
• Clear written communication skills and the ability to create structured, actionable documentation
• You Might Also Have:
• Experience building tools or platforms used by other engineers.
• Familiarity with developer portals, plugins, or internal platform tooling.
• Experience with MkDocs or docs-as-code workflows.
• Exposure to GCP services related to artifact storage or content delivery.
• Experience working with AI-assisted tooling, agent frameworks, or deterministic tool integrations.

Benefits

• health insurance
• six-month paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• monthly meal allowance
• 23 paid days off
• paid flexible holidays
• paid sick leave