Engineering Manager - Content Platform
London / Stockholm
Engineering – Experience /
Permanent /
Hybrid
Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them.
As an engineering manager at Spotify your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work and generally having a great time at Spotify. You also lead the delivery of the team, enabling productive and sustainable ways-of-working, focus on the most important things, and long term business value.
Working closely with Product Managers, peer Engineering Managers, and Staff Engineers, you will guide your team in developing, operating, and iterating on the systems that manage Spotify's content catalog. You will also play a key role in shaping your domain's product & engineering roadmap and strategy, ensuring alignment across competence, squads, the broader goals of Content Platform, and Spotify.
What You'll Do
- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team, fostering their professional growth and career development through coaching, feedback, and performance management.
- Ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of projects. Champion operational excellence and sound engineering practices.
- Partner with collaborators to define the vision, strategy, and roadmaps for problem domains, the PA, and your Squad while ensuring they align with business needs and technical opportunities.
- Cultivate a healthy, collaborative, and inclusive environment where engineers feel empowered, challenged, and productive. Build strong relationships with partners across Spotify.
- Champion and cultivate a culture of adaptability and continuous evolution within your squad and the PA. Coach engineers and peers to navigate changing requirements, proactively identify and seize opportunities rather than waiting for perfect definition, and embrace a fluid, dynamic approach to problem-solving that moves beyond traditional squad boundaries to deliver impact where it's needed most.
- Provide technical guidance, ensuring the team makes sound architectural and technological choices. Facilitate discussions and decisions around building scalable, extensible, and reliable content management solutions.
- Effectively communicate team progress, challenges, and plans to partners across different levels and functions within the organisation including management, peers, trust & safety teams, legal and feature teams across Spotify.
Who You Are
- You have experience managing and leading software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
- You possess a strong technical background in software development, ideally with experience in backend systems, platform development, data processing, or large-scale distributed systems.
- You are passionate about people leadership and creating environments where engineers, engineering managers and product managers can thrive in a collaborative environment.
- You have excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of working effectively with both technical and non-technical collaborators across multiple levels of seniority.
- You demonstrate the ability for strategic and product thinking, and to align squad, PA and engineering goals with broader organisational objectives.
- You have a good understanding of system design, architecture, and operational concerns and are a proponent of iterative design, striking the right balance between the long-term and short-term solutions.
Where You’ll Be
- This role is based in London or Stockholm
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
