Do you love growing teams and developing engineer’s careers? Would you like to lead a smart and resourceful, team building the platform that helps creators thrive in the new music economy? In Spotify for Artists, we’re focused on giving artists and their teams the insights and tools they need to grow their audience and monetize their fanbase. Our Fan Insights and Guidance team aims to educate artists and their teams about their fans and provide actionable steps for growth. Our areas of expertise include the Spotify Charts website and consumer application features, the Spotify for Artists stats pages, and several robust data pipelines. We work closely with various cross-functional teams including Music, Artists and Label Partnerships, Legal and Licensing, and Marketing.

As an engineering manager at Spotify your main responsibility is to the people you support. Ensuring that they are growing as engineers, delivering value to the business and generally having a phenomenal time at Spotify! Your technical leadership and solid background in software development will ensure you are able to appropriately support, challenge and help grow your team members. This role will provide you with the opportunity to influence our team culture, helping teams learn as they deliver, partnering to drive our product strategy, and creating an environment that continuously improves our excellence in execution. If that sounds exciting then this might be the next step for you.

What you'll do

• Develop a team of engineers at various career levels through coaching, mentoring, and management support.
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineering teams, product managers, data scientists, user researchers and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems across our fan commerce platform.
• Guide and support engineering technology architecture for product development.
• Lead and advocate for better development practices (CI, testing, operational efficiency, etc.)
• Grow the technical expertise of your team around quality, scalability, performance, and fault tolerance using state of the art tools.
• Work closely with the recruitment team to hire and onboard engineers.

Who you are

• You love developing and growing people and have a proven track record of growing engineering teams.
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about the full stack of software development, from performant data pipelines to a well crafted UI. A background in data engineering and/or machine learning would be especially helpful.
• You are engaged with the business impact your team provides and have a clear vision of the technical roadmap.

Where you'll be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode 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

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.