At Spotify Advertising R&D, our mission is to build the next generation advertising platform for audio which can scale the freemium experience for hundreds of millions of fans and tens of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities to define our business.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager with experience in data engineering to facilitate learning, excellence and delivery within Spotify's Ads Business Unit. In this role, you will be instrumental in growing the team and guiding software development to successfully scale and build ad delivery formats and infrastructure. You will help us define and materialize our monetization vision to improve the ad experience for our listeners and advertisers alike, and grow our advertising business to be market leader. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music. 

What you'll do

• Build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development.
• Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers and product managers in solving exciting and challenging problems across the platform.
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the things we value.
• Be an active member of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation.
• Grow the technical expertise of the team. 

Who you are

• You love developing and growing people and have a track record doing it!
• You have experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers towards delivering timely, high quality software together with them.
• You have experience in encouraging a strong culture in an agile environment.
• Have a validated engineering background with previous experience developing large scale systems for data engineering, including processing, storage, quality and management.
• You are experienced in working with a diverse set of partners and helping them understand the trade-offs to different product and technical decisions.
• You care about agile software processes, development, reliability, and responsible experimentation.

Where you'll be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration

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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.

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.