Android Engineer Platform

The Platform department builds the technology ecosystem that enables Spotify to learn and deliver quickly, while safely and easily scaling to billion customers, and enabling our rapid employee growth around the globe. Our team consists of six organizational units that reflect the needs and groupings of our internal customers. We support the craft and practice of designers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists by developing the frameworks, capabilities and tools they need to do their work effectively, quickly, and safely. We are an amplifier for efficiency, quality, and innovation across all of Spotify!

What you'll do

• Work with and improve the local development environment for our feature engineers
• Develop tooling for measuring development productivity and speed
• Developing impactful solutions to improve the speed of development for feature engineers
• Develop tooling for general developer productivity
• Innovate at a high pace to support development at scale
• Become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team
• Become a developer advocate improving technical communications with developers within Spotify and foster a deeper understanding to their problems and needs

Who you are

• You have several years of working experience as an Android engineer with Java/Kotlin. If you have experience in other languages and platforms such as C++, Python, iOS, low-level programming or productivity tools, that would be a bonus
• You have experience with XP, strong testing practices or CI/CD
• You are a solutions-oriented team player; you are flexible and ready to do what's best for your customers (in this case, the customers are other teams at Spotify)
• You have a great ability to learn, and you are eager to expand your areas of expertise
• You have a passion for supporting and enabling others to become more productive
• You have a strong quality mindset and care for the overall performance of the product

Where you'll be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours
• Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located that time zone
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here