We are looking for an Engineering Manager (Chapter Lead) to drive the
backend engineering practice within Spotify’s Free Revenue mission in
our New York office. In this role, you will be instrumental in growing
the team and guiding software development to successfully scale and
build ad delivery infrastructure. You will help us define and
materialize our monetization vision to improve the ad experience for our
users and advertisers alike, and grow our advertising business to a
market leader. Above all, your work will impact the way the world
experiences music.
What you’ll do
- Develop people and teams through coaching, mentoring, and management
support
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and
designers to solve interesting and challenging problems across our
ad platform
- Participate in backend engineering technology architecture
discussions for product development and advocate better backend
development practices (CI, testing, operational efficiency, etc.)
- Grow the technical expertise of your team around quality,
scalability, performance, and fault tolerance using state of the art
tools (including Google Cloud Platform offering)
- Advocate and promote leadership at all levels within the larger
engineering community
- Work closely with the recruitment team to hire and onboard backend
engineers
- Work from our office in NYC and be occasionally willing to travel to
other Spotify offices
Who you are
- You love developing and growing people and have a tracked record
doing it
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You are experienced with leading, coaching, and mentoring
individuals and teams
- You have a deep understanding of service oriented architectures and
scalable systems serving millions of users
- You preferably have ad tech and large-scale backend experience in an
agile development environment
- You may have experience with payments systems and/or ecommerce
products
- You may have experience supporting external APIs and/or developer
communities
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly
believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will
lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for
our users and our creators. This is something we value deeply and we
encourage everyone to come be a part of changing the way the world
listens to music.
Psst! If this job is your perfect match and you want some inside tips
before you apply, read this blog post by our Head of Talent Acquisition
Fredrik Johnsson.