The Role
The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next on Spotify easier and more enjoyable for every listener. We seek to understand the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else so that we can make great recommendations to every individual person and keep the world listening. Every day, hundreds of millions of people all over the world use the products we build which include destinations like “Home” and “Search” as well as original playlists such as “Discover Weekly” and “Daily Mix.”
We are the PZN Surfaces Foundation PA and one of our squads is looking for an Engineering Manager. Our mission is to provide the foundational tools Surfaces Recommendations needs to unlock user value and broad outcomes and enable partners across Spotify to independently and responsibly drive targeted impact. While our roots are in managing strategic interventions, our scope has expanded significantly in a recent reorganization. We are on a mission to simplify the content configuration ecosystem by consolidating legacy organic and inorganic tools into a sensible unified framework. We own the Promotions Economy governance system and are responsible for expanding this governance to ensure user trust as we scale recommendations to new platforms and surfaces.Our team owns critical systems including Launcher, Home Config, and the Promotions decoration stack. We collaborate closely with the Surfaces Recommendations PA to ensure they have the levers needed to drive user value.
As an Engineering Manager at Spotify, your primary responsibility is to the people you support. You will ensure that they are growing as engineers, delivering healthy technology, and generally having a great time at Spotify. A proven technology background is key, so that you’re able to challenge your team members to be their best. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.
We have team members in Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and Stockholm.
What You'll Do
- Lead a team of engineers through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development.
- Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs.
- Advocate and advance modern, agile engineering practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
- Reinforce a healthy, collaborative engineering culture.
- Grow the technical expertise of your team.
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems that affect all Spotifiers.
Who You Are
- You love developing and growing people and have experience in leading, coaching, or mentoring individuals and teams.
- You’re passionate about software engineering best practices and love to have an impact on large-scale tech problems.
- You have proven experience working in an agile development environment with complicated and ambitious business requirements.
- You strive to build capabilities that deliver a great, safe and trusted experience, to our internal customers and to Spotify users across the world.
- Experience leading software engineering teams or projects (e.g., mentoring junior engineers, setting technical direction, etc.).
- Experience with the design of software systems
- Experience working towards strategic goals in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EMEA region as long as we have a work location.
- Excluding France for now due to on-call restrictions.
- This team operates within the Central Eastern 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.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
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.
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