Spotify is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Advertising engineering efforts. In this role, you will be responsible for growing the team and guiding development to create a user-first ad experience, while ensuring the accuracy and integrity of ad-serving data.
Responsibilities:
- Build and lead a robust team of data and backend engineers by attracting top talent, mentoring individuals and managing conflict
- Work with product managers and lead the team to design and implement product features, while improving the quality of the current big-data intensive tools that exist for audiences and targeting
- Lead the team to utilize, homogenize and make available for peer teams to use, diverse large-volume datasets built around user preferences, behavior, identity and location - gathered from a user's mobile as well as other connected platforms
- Strong understanding of how data-intensive systems are expressed in the UX shown to customers
- Grow the technical expertise of the team around system design, quality and testing, scalability, performance and fault tolerance
- Manage OKRs, roadmaps, career conversations, performance and accountability, and thereby carefully plan, track, and report on work of the team and identify problems early
- Work closely with many peer teams to ensure that our systems are designed in a scalable and maintainable manner
- Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
- Drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality