The Freemium R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.

We believe that content is a powerful tool that can bring people closer together and help them express themselves in new ways. For instance, enabling expression sparks conversations and cultivates the connection between people, creating a richer and more organic way of driving brand awareness and user growth than traditional channels alone (email, push, etc.). 

Our mission is to create unique experiences that enable people to connect around our content, driving brand differentiation and user growth.

We think differently and utilize our content in new ways that our team builds unique on-platform experiences that engage users and attract new audiences to Spotify. Our work is guided by experimentation, where the engineering team is deeply involved in the ideation part of the process and is responsible for building technical solutions. We work together with product management, user researchers, data scientists, and designers to build and validate hypotheses around new opportunities for growth.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our user-facing teams of iOS, Android and Backend engineers. You will play a meaningful role in growing and developing the engineers into a healthy and high-performing team, continuously improving our engineering practices, and delivering state-of-the-art technology while keeping it fun. As a result, you will have a direct and measurable impact on the future growth of Spotify!

Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music and podcasts.

What you'll do

• You will be working closely with product, insights, and design to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution
• You will help to cultivate agile methodologies and foster a culture of sustainable tech health
• You will ensure the team has a sound technology strategy
• You will build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
• You will grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with our values

Who you are

• You’re passionate about software engineering practices and love to have an impact on large-scale tech problems
• You are experienced with leading, managing, coaching, and mentoring individuals and teams
• You have previous experience delivering products in an agile development environment at scale
• You have a quality mindset, delivering high-quality products and supporting others to maintain a high standard 
• You are comfortable working collaboratively on a cross-discipline team. Working project-based, and also driving delivery on small to medium-sized initiatives
• You have a growth mindset, you embrace challenges and celebrate wins as well as failures

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
• We ask that our team members be located within Central Standard time zone, Eastern Standard time zone, or Brasília time zone for the purposes of our collaboration hours 
• 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

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 with a community of more than 345 million users.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.