Spotify, New York, NY
Senior Software Engineer, 2013 - 2018
Responsible for end-to-end delivery of features within the native iOS Spotify app, desktop (web) Spotify app, and Spotify Web Player. This involved leading efforts to research users' behaviors and motivations, rapidly design, prototype, and guerrila/usability test a wide range of concepts, draft and execute A/B test strategy to test at scale, and analyze user insights to obtain qualitative and quantitative data in order to inform how to successfully build and ship features.
Managed cross-team efforts with developers, designers, and product managers, many of whom are based out of Europe, to embed new features within existing platforms and views.
Designed, developed, and delivered features that improve artists’ ability to manage their identities and promote their newest releases and tours on Spotify. Includes Concerts feature, New Release notifications, and ways for artists to express themselves via Artist’s Pick and editable artist profiles.
Designed, implemented, and shipped Social features to increase user engagement and retention and enhance music discovery on the platform. Includes Find Friends and Following users/artists, real time Friend Activity Feeds, Sharing music with other users via Inbox and on social networks, and in-app/push notifications.