Engineering Manager - Experience

What You'll Do

• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team, fostering their professional growth and career development through coaching, feedback, and performance management.
• Ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of projects that contribute to our objectives. Champion operational excellence and sound engineering practices.
• Partner with collaborators to define the vision, strategy, and roadmaps for problem domains, the Product Area, and your team while ensuring they align with business needs and technical opportunities (including the appropriate use of technologies like ML).
• Cultivate a healthy, collaborative, and inclusive environment where engineers feel empowered, challenged, and productive. Build strong relationships with partners across Spotify.
• Champion and cultivate a culture of adaptability and continuous evolution within your team and Product Area. Coach engineers and peers to navigate changing requirements, proactively identify and seize opportunities rather than waiting for perfect definition, and embrace a fluid, dynamic approach to problem-solving that moves beyond traditional squad boundaries to deliver impact where it's needed most.
• Provide technical guidance, ensuring the team makes sound architectural and technological choices. Facilitate discussions and decisions around building scalable, extensible, and reliable content management solutions.
• Effectively communicate team progress, challenges, and plans to partners across different levels and functions within the organisation, including management, peers, trust & safety teams, legal, and feature teams across Spotify.

Who You Are

• You have proven experience managing and leading software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management. Ideally, you are spending more energy coaching fellow managers and peers.
• You possess a strong technical background in software development, ideally with experience in backend systems, platform development, data processing, or large-scale distributed systems.
• You are passionate about people leadership and creating environments where engineers, engineering managers and product managers can thrive in a collaborative environment.
• You have excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of working effectively with both technical and non-technical collaborators across multiple levels of seniority.
• You are experienced in engineering execution and feel that, as the engineering industry has shifted, there are other ways to solve problems than the traditional approaches.
• You demonstrate strong strategic and product thinking and the ability to align squad, PA and engineering goals with broader organisational objectives.
• You have a good understanding of system design, architecture, and operational concerns and are a proponent of iterative design, striking the right balance between the long-term and short-term solutions.
• While deep ML expertise is not required, an understanding of its concepts and applications, particularly in content analysis or decision-making systems, is a plus.

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.