Engineering Manager

Acast; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 1,100,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Acast is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead two teams, guiding delivery and people growth. You will hire, coach, and mentor engineers, while aligning with the tech leadership to influence product direction and maintain a high-performance culture.

You will work closely with PMs and stakeholders in a hybrid setup, with the option to work remotely within Sweden or from our Stockholm office. Strong TypeScript and AWS experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple teams and delivering value through people and process.
• Strong communication and relationship-building with stakeholders and PMs.
• Advocate for agile software development and engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead two engineering teams and drive execution, goals, and accountability.
• Hire, coach, mentor, and grow team members to reach their potential.
• Influence product decisions in collaboration with stakeholders and PMs.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

People development

Agile

Stakeholder management

Tools

TypeScript

AWS

Job description

About Acast

Since 2014, Acast has been building the world’s most valuable podcast marketplace, creating the technology that connects podcast creators, advertisers, and listeners. Its marketplace spans more than 140,000 podcasts, 3,300 advertisers, and one billion quarterly listens. Crucially, those listens are monetized wherever they happen - across any podcast app or listening platform.

About the role

As an Engineering Manager at Acast you will be the people manager and technical leader across two teams. You will work closely with our tech leadership team to continuously deliver value and make sure that the members in your teams are growing. You will build, support, and grow these teams through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and feedback. You will drive execution by organizing teamwork, setting goals, and holding the teams accountable. You will have a critical role in guiding product decision making alongside stakeholders. In addition to your two teams, you will also be contributing to and influencing the engineering organization’s direction and culture alongside other engineering managers and directors.

What you'll do

The Delivery area is the core of Acast where the content, the user and the monetization meet to deliver the best possible experience and value for everyone. Collaborating with experienced PMs, you will guide two of the area’s key teams to break new ground in automating campaign planning and delivering smarter targeting through data driven recommendations. The work of your teams will create value for advertisers, creators, and the broader podcast ecosystem.

Who you are

We are looking for someone who truly enjoys developing and growing people. Leadership, communication, and relationship-building skills are among your strengths. We also believe that you advocate agile software development and engineering best practices. It's important that you are curious and can adapt quickly and enjoy a dynamic and ever-changing environment. The team’s systems are mainly written in TypeScript and Infrastructure runs in AWS so you are expected to be familiar with these technologies. In this role, you will be expected to stay connected to the team’s daily work and be a technical leader with the respect of your team. For this important teams we are seeking someone with solid experience and a strong track record of building and leading high-performing teams, and managing stakeholder relationships.

Where you will be

Most of our teams are hybrids with some members co-located in offices and some working remotely. For this role you can work remote within Sweden, or based out of our central Stockholm office.

Culture

Acast is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin or any of the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.

Culture is our number one priority as a business. We believe people come first, and we work every day to enable autonomy, continuous improvement and bring out the best in people. We’re global and have remote teams, so it’s even more important that we strive for an open, inclusive and caring environment where everyone feels visible and welcome.

We consider ourselves a modern organization driven by strong values to create the best, most fulfilling and nurturing culture.

We very much look forward to finding the next great person to join our cause!