Engineering Manager - Experimentation

Spotify; United States; Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a skilled, distributed team of engineers across Europe. You will coach individuals and the group, uphold a strong team culture, and guide delivery quality and pace.

You’ll provide mentorship, set technical strategy with Staff engineers, and occasionally contribute hands-on coding. You will collaborate with product managers to align priorities with the product vision, ensure scalable systems, and cultivate an environment of creativity,

Qualifications

• Experience designing and leading distributed systems that scale to millions of users.
• Experience with data warehouses and large-scale data processing.
• Proven track record in commercial SaaS product development from concept to launch.
• Senior level contributor with strong leadership experience and people management.
• Strong emphasis on software engineering best practices and code quality.
• Willingness to adopt AI tools to improve engineering outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Hire, coach and develop a team of engineers.
• Deliver high-quality software and ensure timely releases.
• Partner with product managers on prioritization and product vision.
• Work with Staff engineers to shape technical strategy.
• Contribute to hands-on engineering work as needed.
• Help the team deliver an amazing product with a high standard of quality.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data warehousing

SaaS product experience

Leadership experience

Software engineering best practices

Quality focus

AI tooling

Job description

Think it, build it, ship it, tweak it\" is at the core of the company's product development approach. In the Experimentation product area we are providing the company 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 the company, 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.

CompensationAdditional Informationthe company is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at the company 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 the company, 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.