Engineering Manager
Personalization
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The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Daily Mix to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them. We ask that our team members be physically located in Central European time or Eastern Standard/Daylight time zones for the purposes of our collaboration hours.
Location
Boston or Remote EMEA
Job type
Permanent
We are looking for a passionate and experienced Engineering Manager to join Spotify’s Personalization team. This role is in the Mixer product area, which is a part of the Quest tribe—Spotify’s division that is dedicated to building world class listening experiences. These listening experiences, including playlists, lead the industry in part because of human input and expertise. We are looking for an engineering manager to lead the team building capabilities that unlock the collaborative intelligence between humans and machines, making our recommendations delightful for listeners and empowering for creators.
As an Engineering Manager, you will manage and lead the engineers in one of our squads. Our mission is to make Spotify’s recommendations set the pace for our industry. By building tools that unlock human expertise you will work with internal stakeholders and partners to support their operational needs, and to evolve the quality and nature of audio recommendations.
What You'll Do
- You will build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
- Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and excellence and work with your team on strategy and execution
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product managers, product designers, and data scientists in solving exciting and challenging problems across the platform and with our internal users
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization
- Grow the technical expertise of the team
- Stay current on industry trends in web development
- Develop expertise in Spotify’s tech stack, enabling a healthy tech portfolio across multiple disciplines
Who You Are
- You thrive when developing great people, not just great products
- Have experience in cultivating a strong engineering culture in an agile environment
- You have experience successfully managing at least one previous engineering team
- You have experience working with partners, stakeholders, product managers, and technical leads to develop technical strategies that unlock business strategy
- Have several years of experience as an engineer and are well versed in JavaScript and modern web technologies
- You have previous experience developing tooling, platforms, and infrastructure
- Experience with TypeScript is a plus
- You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
- You have experience collaborating with product, design, and insights towards great outcomes
- You’re familiar with the industry trends and keep up with the latest product offerings, and can understand trade-offs of existing solutions
Where You'll Be
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
- Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Eastern US and Central European time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
- Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
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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 - fully paid - 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.
Spotify On Tour, join your colleagues on trips to industry festivals and events.
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.
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 with a community of more than 381 million users.
Global COVID and Vaccination Disclosure
Spotify is committed to safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For the US, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols.