Spotify
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SeniorClientEngineer-CoreExperience(Formats&Foundations)
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“Senior Client Engineer - Core Experience (Formats & Foundations) at Spotify. Skills: Mobile experiences, Mobile foundations, Technical initiatives. Design, build, and evolve mobile experiences. Contribute to architecture and development”
What You'll Achieve.
Improve scalability, performance, reliability, and developer experience; Shape product direction and technical strategy; Improve tooling, workflows, documentation, and shared engineering standards; Balance short-term product needs with long-term platform sustainability and technical health
Industry & Context.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful technical trade-offs
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
experience building mobile applications using Swift and Kotlin, experience contributing to large-scale consumer-facing applications with high performance and reliability expectations, design scalable, maintainable mobile systems and reusable platform components, experienced collaborating across disciplines and influencing technical decisions in cross-functional environments, communicate technical ideas clearly and thoughtfully with both technical and non-technical audiences, enjoy mentoring and supporting engineers through collaboration, feedback, and knowledge sharing, comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful technical trade-offs, curious about emerging technologies and evolving development practices, including AI-assisted engineering workflows, growth mindset and continuously look for opportunities to improve systems, products, and team practices
Nice to Have
AI-assisted development tools, emerging mobile technologies
What You'll Do.
and evolve mobile experiences
Contribute to architecture and development
Lead technical initiatives
Collaborate closely with engineers
Drive engineering quality
Help teams move faster
Participate in experimentation and prototyping
Explore modern engineering workflows
Balance short-term product needs
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and platform teams; Mentoring engineers and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented engineering culture; Supporting engineers through collaboration, feedback, and knowledge sharing
Communication Scope
Communicate technical ideas clearly and thoughtfully with both technical and non-technical audiences
Full Job Description
## What You’ll Do Design, build, and evolve mobile experiences across some of Spotify’s most visible consumer surfaces. Contribute to the architecture and development of reusable mobile foundations, frameworks, and platform capabilities. Lead technical initiatives that improve scalability, performance, reliability, and developer experience across the Spotify app. Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and platform teams to shape product direction and technical strategy. Drive engineering quality through thoughtful code reviews, testing practices, observability, and operational excellence. Mentor engineers and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented engineering culture. Help teams across Spotify move faster by improving tooling, workflows, documentation, and shared engineering standards. Participate in experimentation and prototyping efforts tied to future-facing content and listening experiences. Explore modern engineering workflows, including AI-assisted development tools and emerging mobile technologies. Balance short-term product needs with long-term platform sustainability and technical health. ## Who You Are You have strong experience building mobile applications using Swift and Kotlin. You have experience contributing to large-scale consumer-facing applications with high performance and reliability expectations. You know how to design scalable, maintainable mobile systems and reusable platform components. You care deeply about user experience, accessibility, performance, and engineering craftsmanship. You are experienced collaborating across disciplines and influencing technical decisions in cross-functional environments. You communicate technical ideas clearly and thoughtfully with both technical and non-technical audiences. You enjoy mentoring and supporting engineers through collaboration, feedback, and knowledge sharing. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful technical trade-offs. You
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