Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them.
We’re looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead the Engineering function for the Spotify Core Experience tribe (“CoreX”), which is a team of close to 200 great people, responsible for the Spotify consumer proposition.
CoreX is developing and innovating on Spotify’s core consumer experience across iOS and Android. You will have a tremendous impact on the actual user experience, drive evolution and will be responsible for shaping strategic decisions that will enable us to reach our goal of over 1 billion users.
As a Senior Director of Engineering, you will work closely with your Product counterpart to define and execute a healthy and progressive product and technology strategy that maximizes our reach and impact for the business. You will also drive impact through the Directors, Senior Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers who report to you by promoting sound engineering practices, driving work on technical strategy and roadmaps, regularly assessing the technical state of teams, advocating for best practices broadly, and providing focused mentoring to teams. You will help ensure that our solutions are scalable, sustainable, architecturally sound, and that technical debt is both incurred consciously and repaid in a reasonable time.
What you’ll do
- Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile tribe and within Spotify in general.
- Be accountable for the technical vision and long-term technology strategy for the Spotify mobile client products. Work closely with your product counterpart to define the product vision and long-term product strategy. Define the technical capabilities required to achieve that product strategy.
- Work with engineering leaders across Spotify to enable large-scale collaboration on the mobile client, partnering with other Spotify business units that are all building their businesses based on access to hundreds of millions of consumers.
- Work closely with engineers, product managers, and other engineering leaders to enable experiences that create awesome music sessions for Spotify users worldwide.
- Lead and support the talented engineers who architect, develop, and support mobile clients deployed to hundreds of millions of users.
- Lead and support the talented engineers who architect, develop, and operate APIs and back-end services supporting hundreds of millions of users. Lead and support the Spotify-wide backend and clientdeveloper community, influencing and driving our architecture across the company.
Who you are
- You have proven experience as a technical leader for managers of managers, as the leader of an Engineering organization driving significant impact. You have a good understanding of how to lead and inspire through others.
- Prior to becoming a technical leader, you have extensive experience working hands-on as a Software Engineer in an agile environment.
- You have experience mentoring and supporting peers and engineering teams, fostering best engineering practices.
- You possess a deep understanding of how to translate product and business goals into tech strategies.
- You have a good understanding of system design, and experience leading staff and principal engineers. You are conversant in some of the following: large-scale mobile application development, microservice architectures, data streaming architectures.
- In the past, you have solved problems that affect the larger company engineering organization as well as your own organization.
- You are passionate about developing products for hundreds of millions of consumers and platforms that are used by hundreds of engineers.
- You are passionate about what you do and have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise.
- As a great influencer with great communication skills, you love sharing your knowledge with others and helping them grow.
- You possess technical leadership knowledge where you can showcase your expertise by speaking at both internal and external conferences.
You will be working from our awesome offices in central Stockholm. We offer relocation packages if you do not currently live in Sweden.
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.
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 with a community of more than 320 million users.
