Engineering Manager - Data Platform

Spotify; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading music streaming service is seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead teams responsible for data collection tools. This role involves mentoring engineers, driving technical strategy, and fostering a collaboration-oriented culture. Candidates should have experience in agile practices and team leadership. The position is flexible, allowing work from home with some in-person meetings, ideally located in London or Stockholm.

Qualifications

• Experience in building and leading engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of technical strategy and agile methodologies.
• Ability to drive technical delivery and foster collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of engineers through mentoring and development.
• Create and maintain a Technical Strategy aligned with Spotify's mission.
• Ensure accountability for technical delivery and execution.

Skills

Team building

Technical strategy development

Agile software development

Collaboration

Mentoring

Job description

We’re launching two brand-new teams within the Data Collection Product Area of Spotify’s Data Platform Studio, each made up of 4–5 engineers across a mix of experience levels.

Team Palico will shape the future of developer experience for data collection at Spotify. By building a unified layer of intuitive, powerful tools on top of our core platforms—Gabito for event delivery and UBI for user-behavior instrumentation—the team will empower engineers across Spotify to build with confidence and speed.

The second team, whose mission is now coming into focus, will take end-to-end ownership of Spotify’s Event Sender SDKs across Android, iOS, JavaScript, and C++—software that sits at the very edge of our ecosystem and underpins how data flows from every Spotify client. Together, these teams offer a rare chance to build foundational systems from the ground up, influence technical strategy from day one, and leave a lasting mark on how Spotify understands and evolves its products through data.

What You\'ll Do

• You will build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development.
• Create and maintain an opinionated Technical Strategy that aligns with the rest of the Platform Mission and Spotify.
• Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers and product managers in solving exciting and challenging problems across the platform.
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the things we value.
• Be an active part of the Product Area leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.
• Grow the technical expertise of the team.

Who You Are

• You will build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development.
• Create and maintain an opinionated Technical Strategy that aligns with the rest of the Platform Mission and Spotify.
• Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers and product managers in solving exciting and challenging problems across the platform.
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the things we value.
• Be an active part of the Product Area leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.
• Grow the technical expertise of the team.

Where You\'ll Be

• This role is based in Stockholm, Sweden or London, UK
• 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.