Director of Engineering
Experience, Core Value & Engagement
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London or Stockholm
We design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day.
If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the tech team in the Core Value & Engagement Product Area (CV&E) within the CoreX (Core Mobile Experience) Studio. CV&E is doubling down on Spotify’s recent investment in Social and Messaging and is also the home for some of our most loved features, like Playlists and Your Library as well as key data delivery platforms like List Platform and Collection. Our key mission is to make Social a key engagement lever in 2026 and onwards. The team comprises 9 squads (90 people in engineering) across EMEA.
As the engineering lead, you will focus on technical delivery through our dual-track approach: Discovery and Execution. Success in this role requires sophisticated collaboration with peers, Staff Engineers, Product, Design, and Insights, fostering a playful and innovative environment. We are looking for a candidate who can quickly grasp product goals and find innovative ways to achieve them while aligning with our technical strategy. The Spotify app should feel like it's all built by a small, tight team, even though we’re close to 300 in engineering. This means leadership in CoreX is a team sport, more like coordinated swimming than a solo run.
What You’ll Do
- Lead a high-performing team of Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers, providing career development and technical direction.
- Half of your time you will lead, coach and grow others. The other half you will go deep in technical delivery, be in the smallest detail and make sure we build the right way, on the right timeline, with the right tradeoffs.
- Integrate AI in all of our existing processes to make us faster and more agile.
- Partner with senior product management leaders from across the business to define the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for Curation.
- Ensure effective planning and predictable high-quality delivery of bet DoDs.
- Collaborate closely with senior leaders in Product, Design, and Insights to provide impactful technical decisionmaking.
- Serve as a role model and effective communicator within the leadership team and the larger CV&E PA.
- Ensure a high quality, bug-free, end user experience
Who You Are
- A playful and innovative leader with experience managing a large area with multiple engineering teams, building mobile or web applications facing end users, with the challenges this brings in terms of quality and overall build approach.
- Experience in applying AI in a systematic way to software development and its key parts like creating product proof of concepts, creation of production code and build verification is a big plus.
- A collaborative team player who thrives on cross-functional work to deliver exceptional user experiences.
- Several years of experience of working with a strong consumer focused product team, finding the right balance between product requirements, tech strategy and effective delivery. You are passionate about building a really good end user experience.
- Passionate about teamwork and engineering, with the ability to inspire and drive a larger team forward.
- Experienced in leading large-scale web or mobile software engineering efforts and delivering on tight deadlines while maintaining a healthy team culture.
- Proficient in working with cross-functional leadership teams.
Where You´ll Be
- This role is based in Stockholm or London.
- 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.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
Our global benefits
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.