We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team in Stockholm. The Content Platform tribe is a central enabler for the Spotify business, delivering a complete, available and enriched catalog of music, podcasts, videos and more. We provide the knowledge graph that accumulates differentiated understandings of creators, content, their attributes, and their relationships. We ensure we can readily moderate and control the catalog to ensure a safe and trusted experience for consumers and to keep our system free of infringement.
As an engineering manager at Spotify, your main responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work and generally having a great time at Spotify. As a lead for strong engineers in R&D, technical leadership and a solid background in software development will ensure you are able to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
What you’ll do
- Build, lead and serve an effective team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
- Nurture a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in-line with our values
- Work closely with your team and external stakeholders to enable sustainable and timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Collaborate with Product Managers and Stakeholders to set the vision, strategy and roadmap for the team
- Advocate for and implement engineering best-practices and develop technical strategy to guide short and long-term plans
Who you are
- You are driven to get stuff done with a collaborative attitude – you don’t win unless your team wins
- You love developing and growing engineers across different disciplines and have a track record of doing so; you thrive when developing great people, not just great products
- You have led complex engineering efforts, and know what it takes to deliver while still having a healthy team
- You understand, or are curious to learn, the importance of metadata for content experiences
- You learn quickly and can easily digest and triangulate multiple sources of information
- You want to live in the breathtaking capital of Sweden and work from one of Spotify’s main hubs
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 brilliant. 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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by 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 286 million users.
