Engineering Manager, Spotify
Advertising
$122.7-175.3k
Plus equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
Be an early applicant
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$122.7-175.3k
Plus equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- You love developing and growing people and have had some experience doing so
- You are experienced with leading, coaching, and mentoring individuals and teams be as a first time manager or as a tech lead
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You follow modern engineering practices and ideally contribute to the software development community
- You have a good understanding of development practices across client and backend platforms
- You have a good understanding of quality and testing best practices and frameworks
- You may have experience supporting external APIs and/or developer communities
- You may have experience working on large-scaled distributed backend systems that require high availability and scalability
- You understand agile principles and their intrinsic benefits
- You preferably have worked in an agile development environment
- You have experience facilitating delivery of large scale initiatives involving more than one team or technologies
- Java experience would be phenomenal but not a requirement
- RESTful API experience is required
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to facilitate learning, excellence and delivery within Spotify's Ads Business Unit
- In this role, you will be instrumental in growing the team and guiding software development to successfully scale and build ad delivery formats and infrastructure
- You will help us define and materialize our monetization vision to improve the ad experience for our listeners and advertisers alike, and grow our advertising business to be market leader
- Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music
- Develop people and teams through coaching, mentoring, and management support
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product managers, and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems across our ad platform
- Guide and facilitate engineering technology architecture decisions for product development
- Advocate for and support better development practices (CI/CD, testing, operational efficiency, etc.)
- Grow the technical expertise of your team around quality, scalability, performance, and fault tolerance using innovative tools
- Advocate and promote leadership at all levels within the larger engineering community
- Determine staffing needs for open roles and work closely with the recruitment team to hire and onboard engineers as needed
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company 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
Company values
- Innovative: We move fast and take big risks
- Sincere: We have no time for internal politics
- Passionate: We revel in what we do
- Collaborative: We recognise that we're all in this together
- Playful: We don't take ourselves too seriously
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
Articles
Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
People progressing
Joined as a Conversion Manager in the Growth Team. Promoted three times over seven years to Senior Director - Head of Growth.
Joined as a Customer Advisor. Since then has had the role titles Senior Advisor, Content Associate, Team Coach, and Operations Manager - Primary Support. Hurst is now currently the Business Operations Manager of Music.
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