As an iOS Engineer, you will build and enhance advertising experiences on Spotify, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create user-friendly applications and improve app performance.
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.
Sell what you love. For us and millions of users across the globe, that’s Spotify. Join the Sales team and you’ll build the relationships that help grow our business in existing markets and beyond. We don’t just sell creative solutions to our clients and partners, we help to shape them; using our expert knowledge of ad products, sales channels and the industry to impact the way the world experiences music and podcasts.
Our Advertising Product & Technology team is building the next generation advertising platform for audio and video at Spotify. We create thoughtful, non-interruptive ad experiences that power free listening for hundreds of millions of fans around the world. From display to video, our work lives across some of the most highly trafficked surfaces in the app—helping connect listeners, creators, and advertisers in meaningful ways.
What You'll Do:
- Build and evolve ad experiences that allow millions of listeners to enjoy Spotify for free
- Collaborate with engineers across iOS, Android, backend, and web, along with product, design, and data partners to ship impactful features
- Write clean, maintainable code that scales across teams and products
- Contribute to the technical direction, architecture, and best practices for iOS development within Advertising
- Improve app performance, reliability, and user experience across ad surfaces
- Help shape reusable components and libraries that support fast, consistent development
- Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive, and autonomous team environment
Who You Are:
- You know how to write clear, idiomatic Swift and build maintainable iOS applications
- You are experienced with modern iOS frameworks and development tools
- You have a strong understanding of API design and common iOS design patterns
- You care about code quality, performance, and delivering polished user experiences
- You understand how mobile applications connect with backend systems end-to-end
- You have shipped at least one app to the App Store or have a project you can walk us through
- You value collaboration and contribute to a positive, inclusive team environment
- You have 2+ years of experience building iOS applications
Where You'll Be:
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the Americas region as long as we have a work location.
- This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
The United States base range for this position is $107,483 –$153,547 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. 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.
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