Engineering Manager - Music

3 weeks, 1 day ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Spotify

Spotify

Spotify is a leading global audio streaming service empowering artists and inspiring fans worldwide with over 70 million tracks. It has 365 million users, including 165 million subscribers, across 178 markets.

Media
Founded 2006

Description

  • Manage and support a team of 7–8 engineers building the core RightsDB database.
  • Support RightsDB initiatives such as the Publishing Deny List and DDEX-based UGC rights ingestion.
  • Provide mentorship, coaching, and technical guidance to team members.
  • Foster a positive, inclusive, and growth-oriented team culture.
  • Partner with the product manager and cross-functional stakeholders to define scope, roadmap, and priorities.
  • Align business needs with technical implementation and set squad technical strategy.
  • Manage timelines and drive reliable, timely feature delivery.
  • Oversee platform operations including performance, security, incident response, and on-call rotations.
  • Collaborate with legal, rights operations, and content teams to evolve Spotify Rights Center for regulatory and rightsholder needs.

Requirements

  • 1+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, ideally in a product-focused and cross-functional setting.
  • 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including web, backend, or full-stack development.
  • Experience with web technologies, distributed systems, or cloud platforms.
  • Comfort managing stakeholders from both technical and non-technical backgrounds.
  • Experience delivering outcomes in a highly collaborative environment.
  • Strong focus on user experience, data accuracy, and system integrity in legal or IP-sensitive domains.
  • Growth mindset and passion for building scalable systems.
  • Ability to support and empower a team to do its best work.
  • Familiarity with the music or media rights domain or similar IP-centric industries (preferred).
  • Familiarity with content management systems, legal compliance platforms, or large-scale data pipelines (preferred).
  • Familiarity with platform migrations, user access control models, or third-party integrations (preferred).

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $164,448–$234,926 USD.
  • Equity included.
  • Health insurance.
  • Six-month paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Monthly meal allowance.
  • 23 paid days off.
  • Paid flexible holidays and paid sick leave.
  • Flexible work location within North America, with Eastern Standard Time collaboration.

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