Accessability Engineer

Accessibility Engineer
Are you passionate about accessibility and building inclusive experiences? Excellent! We are looking for an experienced Accessibility Engineer contractor to join our in-house accessibility team.
Solving for inclusion requires empathy with users, building influential relationships, proposing bold ideas, and introducing new processes that integrate accessibility thinking into our product development. Your work will have a high impact as you partner with other engineers, designers, and user researchers to build the tools, processes, and frameworks needed to ensure the clients experiences are accessible and inclusive for all our millions of users.

What You’ll Do
Work day-to-day with an agile team of engineers, designers, user researchers, and product managers to build and maintain our central approach to accessibility
Collaborate with other engineering teams on code reviews, evolving our shared processes and tooling to support many teams working on an exciting range of products
Propose and lead initiatives that help achieve our goal of scaling accessibility and ultimately making the Spotify experience more inclusive
Educate, inspire, and influence fellow team members by sharing your knowledge and experience of accessibility through client-specific guidelines and accessibility training based on findings from user research
Drive the adoption of accessibility across the company by partnering and occasionally embedding with our product teams as they update existing and build exciting new features
Find innovative approaches, improve the developer experience, and remove any friction teams may have when building accessible Spotify experiences.

Who You Are
A fullstack engineer with experience making web or mobile apps, tools or features accessible
You have good knowledge and understanding of WCAG criteria and accessibility best practices
You are aware of the needs and challenges people with disabilities face when using software
You understand and are able to articulate the difference between web accessibility and mobile accessibility
You are comfortable using assistive technologies such as screen readers and accessibility features across various platforms (incl. VoiceOver, Talkback, Browser extensions, JAWS, and NVDA)
You have experience auditing and testing digital products for accessibility
You enjoy mentoring and supporting peers and engineering teams, fostering the best engineering and accessibility practices
You are eager to learn new technologies (we will support you with training & mentoring)

Start: Asap

Lenght: 3 months

Workplace: Sweden