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Engineering Manager - Data Platform

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Proven experience building and leading engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, and career development.
  • Strong ability to create and drive technical strategy and align it with platform and company goals.
  • Track record of delivering technical solutions and collaborating with product managers and cross-functional teams.
  • Experience promoting agile software development practices and fostering a healthy engineering culture.

Requirements:

  • Build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development.
  • Create and maintain an opinionated Technical Strategy that aligns with the Platform Mission and Spotify.
  • Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.
  • Facilitate collaboration with other engineers and product managers in solving exciting and challenging problems across the platform.

Job description

We’re launching two brand-new teams within the Data Collection Product Area of Spotify’s Data Platform Studio, each made up of 4–5 engineers across a mix of experience levels.

Team Palico will shape the future of developer experience for data collection at Spotify. By building a unified layer of intuitive, powerful tools on top of our core platforms—Gabito for event delivery and UBI for user-behavior instrumentation—the team will empower engineers across Spotify to build with confidence and speed.

The second team, whose mission is now coming into focus, will take end-to-end ownership of Spotify’s Event Sender SDKs across Android, iOS, JavaScript, and C++—software that sits at the very edge of our ecosystem and underpins how data flows from every Spotify client. Together, these teams offer a rare chance to build foundational systems from the ground up, influence technical strategy from day one, and leave a lasting mark on how Spotify understands and evolves its products through data.


What You'll Do
  • You will build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development.
  • Create and maintain an opinionated Technical Strategy that aligns with the rest of the Platform Mission and Spotify.
  • Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.
  • Facilitate collaboration with other engineers and product managers in solving exciting and challenging problems across the platform.
  • 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 things we value.
  • Be an active part of the Product Area leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.
  • Grow the technical expertise of the team.

  • Who You Are
  • You will build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development.
  • Create and maintain an opinionated Technical Strategy that aligns with the rest of the Platform Mission and Spotify.
  • Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.
  • Facilitate collaboration with other engineers and product managers in solving exciting and challenging problems across the platform.
  • 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 things we value.
  • Be an active part of the Product Area leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.
  • Grow the technical expertise of the team.

  • 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.
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