Engineering Manager

Schibsted; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits through Schibsted

Free access to premium Podme content and audiobooks

Job summary

Podme is seeking an Engineering Manager to strengthen their iOS, Android, and Web teams by fostering clarity and engineering effectiveness. You will lead a distributed team, supporting their growth while ensuring high-quality product development.

The role involves maintaining visibility of capability and compliance while collaborating closely with product and tech leadership. Ideal candidates will have experience in leading engineering teams, an understanding of mobile release processes, and strong communication skills in English, with Swedish being a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and developing engineers.
• Experience with mobile release processes.
• Ability to explain engineering constraints clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed group of iOS, Android, and Web engineers.
• Foster an inclusive and accountable environment.
• Support engineering strategy execution.

Skills

People leadership

Understanding of modern software delivery

Communication skills

Cost-conscious decision making

Hybrid team experience

Education

Professional-level English

Swedish (beneficial)

Job description

Are you an engineering leader who enjoys creating clarity, improving engineering effectiveness, and helping engineers deliver with confidence? Do you care about iOS, Android, and Web capability as much as you care about people leadership? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

As a part of our vision to enrich people’s lives through stories, we are strengthening the engineering foundation behind listener and subscriber experience by hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our iOS, Android, and Web engineers. In this role, you will help create the clarity, capability, and delivery conditions behind high‑quality user‑facing product development.

This is a great opportunity to increase your impact at a fast‑moving audio company backed by Schibsted Media, and to work with teams that combine quality engineering, product thinking, and care for the listener experience.

What you’ll do

• Lead, support, and develop a distributed group of iOS, Android, and Web engineers through coaching, feedback, growth planning, and clear role expectations.
• Foster an inclusive and accountable environment where employees and consultants across locations have context and support.
• Maintain visibility of capability, ownership, staffing needs, consultant dependency, and succession risks across the client‑side engineering domain.
• Support engineering strategy execution by partnering with product and tech leadership.
• Surface technical debt, quality risks, release risks, infrastructure constraints, and operational needs early to enable informed decisions.
• Strengthen engineering standards around maintainability, observability, security, performance, and operational excellence.
• Help teams balance platform‑specific excellence with cross‑platform alignment where it improves user experience, delivery efficiency, quality, or maintainability.

What You Bring

You combine people leadership with the technical understanding needed to support iOS, Android, Web, and user‑facing product trade‑offs. You create clarity in complex environments and help teams improve how they work.

• Experience leading, coaching, mentoring or developing engineers.
• Experience working with distributed or hybrid engineering teams. Previous management experience in this setup is a plus.
• Understanding of modern software delivery practices and the quality needs of user‑facing products.
• Understanding of mobile release processes and the quality assurance needs of mobile releases.
• Ability to balance engineering standards with team autonomy.
• Ability to explain engineering trade‑offs, risks, and constraints clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Clear communication and relationship‑building skills.
• Cost‑conscious approach to staffing, tooling, infrastructure, and technical decisions.
• Professional‑level English communication skills. Swedish is beneficial.

Bonus points if you have

• Experience leading mixed teams of employees and consultants.
• Experience working with iOS, Android, Web, frontend, mobile release processes, web conversion flows, playback or listening experiences, experimentation, design systems, accessibility, or app‑store release cycles.
• Experience with subscription, media, audio, video, consumer products, or multi‑market organisations.
• Experience improving release confidence, production quality signals, test strategy, analytics instrumentation, frontend performance, or developer experience.
• Experience supporting AI‑assisted engineering, experimentation capability, or engineering productivity improvements.

Why Join Podme?

At Podme, we believe in the power of audio stories to inform, entertain, and inspire. Backed by Schibsted, one of the Nordics’ leading media groups, we’re on a mission to deliver the best of podcasting and audiobooks to listeners across Sweden, Norway, and Finland.

• Join a growing platform with a loyal and expanding user base.
• Lead the iOS, Android, and Web engineering competence domain behind the product surfaces where listeners and subscribers experience Podme most directly.
• Work closely with product, technology, and business stakeholders on problems that affect core listener and subscriber journeys.
• Hybrid setup based in Krakow, with collaboration across Poland, Sweden, and Bosnia
• Travel to Krakow occasionally, approximately 1–2 times per year
• Great benefits through Schibsted and Podme
• Free access to premium Podme content and audiobooks

Help us build the engineering foundation behind the Nordic audio experience.

Your next great challenge starts here.

Apply now and let’s build something great together.

Please note that due to the summer vacation period, we will start reviewing applications and contacting candidates from the beginning of August. Thank you for your patience.

About Podme

Podme is the place for premium podcasts and audiobooks. With over 350,000 paying subscribers, we’re available in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, and part of Schibsted Media since 2021.

Our vision is to enrich people’s lives through stories, which embodies our core belief in the power of narratives to bring joy, meaning, and connection to individuals. We strive to create effortless and habit‑forming audio and product experiences that resonate with the listener and add value in their everyday lives.

We’re a friendly and passionate team of +80 people, here to make listening effortless, inspiring, and part of everyday life. Backed by Schibsted Media, the largest media group in Scandinavia, we are now on a growth journey which requires us to strengthen the engineering foundation needed to support product complexity, reliability, and sustainable delivery.