Engineering Manager, Experimentation

Spotify AB; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 138,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible share incentives

Global parental leave

All The Feels employee assistance

Flexible public holidays

GreenHouse learning opportunities

Job summary

Spotify is seeking an Engineering Director for the Content Platform (Catalog) to lead a distributed team across Europe. You will mentor engineers, drive a high-quality delivery rhythm, and partner with product managers to translate product vision into scalable systems.

You are a senior individual contributor with strong leadership, a passion for best practices, and a willingness to coach across multiple squads. Expect a flexible hybrid setup in Stockholm with opportunities to work remotely.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality software at scale.
• Proven ability to coach and develop engineers and build strong team culture.
• Experience with distributed systems and data processing at scale.

Responsibilities

• Hire, coach and develop the careers of a team of engineers.
• Deliver high-quality software and ensure timely delivery.
• Partner with product managers to align priorities and vision.
• Work with Staff engineers to shape technical strategy and architecture.
• Contribute hands-on engineering work when needed.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Data warehousing

SaaS products

Mentorship

Education

Computer Science degree

Job description

Think it, build it, ship it, tweak it" is at the core of Spotify's product development approach. In the Experimentation product area we are providing Spotify and external customers with Confidence, our platform to quickly and safely iterate through ideas, learn from them and make informed decisions for better products.

At Spotify, experimentation touches almost all of our functions from marketing via content management to consumer products, and we’re running several thousands of tests every year. Through confidence, we 're sharing all our findings and practices with more companies as a commercial SaaS product.

The team you will manage is a skilled and highly engaged group of engineers that are distributed over Europe. As an Engineering manager, you will coach them individually and as a team, maintaining their strong team culture and helping them thrive and and grow. Your technical experience provides mentorship and guidelines to the team, which ensures quality and timeliness of your deliveries. Your leadership promotes creativity, collaboration and courage, which forms a kind and productive team with a high bar for quality and pace of delivery.

What You’ll Do

• You will hire, coach and develop the careers of a team of engineers.
• You will be responsible for high-quality deliveries.
• You will partner with product managers to support with prioritizations and product visions.
• You will support the engineering team and work with Staff engineers to formulate the technical strategy needed to deliver on our vision.
• You will do hands on engineering work from time to time.
• In the end, your primary goal is to support a highly effective engineering team delivering an amazing product.

Who You Are

• You thrive when developing great people, not just great products and cultivating a strong engineering culture in an agile environment.
• You are skilled in collaborating on and developing distributed systems that can scale to millions of users.
• You have experience with data warehouses and data processing at scale.
• You have worked on commercial SaaS products in the past and have hands on experience taking features from zero to one.
• You are a brave learner and see unfamiliar territories as an opportunity to grow.
• You are a senior individual contributor (or has been) with strong people skills and leadership experience.
• You’re passionate about software engineering best practices and love to have an impact on large-scale tech problems.
• You care deeply about quality of the products your working and, and hold people to a high standard.
• Naturally, you harness AI as a tool that helps you be more effective at your work.

Where You’ll Be

• This role is based in 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.

Learn about life at Spotify

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.

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off - for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

Director of Engineering, Content Platform (Catalog)