Engineering Manager - Client Platform

The Platform department creates the technology ecosystem that enables Spotify to learn and deliver quickly, while safely and easily scaling to billions of customers, enabling our rapid employee growth around the globe.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join one of our infra teams in the Client Platform Studio. The team works in the heartbeat of Spotify developer experience being the curators of the PR cycle time, providing fast and accurate test environments towards the ambition of ensuring flawless builds, integrated insights and fast iteration cycle times.

As part of the infrastructure team you will help Spotify engineers quickly understand the impact of their code changes, so they can deliver a solid beautiful product to our end-users in a reliable and timely manner.

What You'll Do

• Grow the technical expertise of your team. We use Bazel and write Python, Scala, Java and more, so ideally you should be familiar with these technologies. Check out this talk for an example of what the team has built in the past.
• Champion operational excellence in the team with a dedication to monitoring and follow up towards outstanding, reliable and easy to maintain products.
• Develop the people in the team through coaching, mentoring and management.
• Work together in collaboration with engineers and product managers in solving exciting and challenging problems at scale across the platform.
• Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and promote great engineering and organizational practices.

Who You Are

• You have the ability to operate effectively and autonomously in situations of ambiguity.
• Passionate about transformational leadership and bottoms-up culture, invested in developing both great engineers and impactful teams.
• You have familiarity with and passion for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Strong and proven engineering background in Mobile engineering/Infrastructure.
• Ability to apply agile and lean principles to solve problems at any scale.
• You have experience in leading, managing, coaching or mentoring software developers towards delivering timely, high quality software with them.

Where You'll Be

• 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.
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location.
• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $156,275 - $223,250, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance.

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.

#JobSite-Featured

#JobSite-Sub-EngineeringLeadership

#JobSite-Main-Engineering

#JobSite-Remote-ESTAmericas