We’re looking for a Senior Partner Engineer to join one of our teams who owns the partner integration, both bluetooth and Spotify connect, on various devices such as speakers, headphones etc. In this role, you will collaborate with partners, both internal and external, to drive integrations, resolve technical issues, and enhance the overall Spotify experience.
As a member of our team, you will become an expert in our partner integrations: a diverse range of APIs, SDKs and other systems that power integrations such as Sonos speakers and sound bars, Samsung Family Hub, and many others.
You will interface with partners all around the world and work with them to integrate the Spotify experience into their platforms and surfaces, or understand their requirements and translate them into actionable work for our engineering teams.
What You'll Do
- Drive partner specific projects where we will enable the Spotify experience for millions of users around the world.
- Drive a holistic approach to partner management and related processes by owning the partner journey and driving improvement initiatives.
- Develop effective communication strategies based on partner and Spotify needs and work with the community of Partner Engineers to continuously improve standards, strategies, and frameworks.
- Unblock internal and external teams by figuring out dependencies, assessing technical risks and clarifying uncertainty.
- Ensure that our partner solutions are reusable and take into account larger strategic concerns.
- Ensure that the Spotify experience we ship with our partners is of high quality and continuously improves.
- Mentor and coach less experienced partner engineers.
Who You Are
- You’ve worked closely with partners, customers, vendors, etc and are an excellent communicator across different cultures and different domains (product, business, engineering, design, etc.).
- You have experience working in Software Engineering in an agile environment, so you can understand and explain our diverse APIs, SDKs and systems.
- You have preferable experience in programming languages such as C, C++, Python from a professional setting as well as build and release tools.
- You can recognize operational processes that need improvement and you have the drive to improve them.
- You are comfortable with flexible working hours to accommodate video calls in different time zones.
- You are able to travel on occasion to visit partners.
Where You'll Be
- For this role you will be based in Stockholm.
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What We Do
Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 50m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience.