Spotify is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for the core systems driving personalization on the Home page. The goal is to make content discovery easier and more enjoyable for listeners by leveraging machine learning and understanding user habits.
Requirements
- Experience in backend engineering
- Experience shaping a tech strategy
- Significant expertise in and passion for building engineering platforms that enable engineering teams to support their product strategies
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of Engineers, and will collaborate with a product manager, Experience teams, promotions, Ads, and of course, Home PZN squads to define and shape a strong product roadmap and technical strategy.
- Responsible for the backend system on call rotation that spans multiple squads across Home Foundation and the larger observability strategy for Home.
- Have direct influence in how home loads today, going beyond the single request load to incremental and pull to refresh loading paradigms that require close partnership with Experience mission.
- Partner closely with Home Content and Home Construction teams to understand their pain points and anticipate their needs by identifying trends and not over-engineering to support those trends
- Work closely with the Experience mission to evolve the incremental loading and pull to refresh paradigms on Home
- Develop an engineering strategy that enables Home PZN to focus on content and programming strategies by building infrastructure to support the content lifecycle: creation, experimentation and management
- Establish and lead all aspects of your group's tech strategy to ensure its product strategy can be achieved
Other
- You love creating an engineering vision and collaborating with product leads to evolve and refine it
- You communicate well regardless of the audience, fine tuning the words and narrative accordingly
- You love developing and growing teams and their leaders and have a proven track record of doing so
- You’re passionate about building capabilities that deliver an excellent, safe and trusted experience, to our internal partners and to Spotify users across the world!
- Grow a balanced, collaborative engineering culture in line with the Spotify band manifesto
