Engineering Manager - Music

Requirements

• You have 1+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, ideally in a product-focused and cross-functional setting
• You have 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including web, backend, or full-stack development
• You have experience working with web technologies, distributed systems, or cloud platforms
• You are comfortable managing stakeholders from both technical and non-technical backgrounds
• You have experience delivering outcomes in a highly collaborative environment
• You care deeply about user experience, data accuracy, and system integrity, especially in legal or IP-sensitive domains
• You have a growth mindset and a passion for building scalable systems
• You support and empower your team to do their best work
• You have familiarity with the music or media rights domain or similar IP-centric industries
• You have familiarity with content management systems, legal compliance platforms, or large-scale data pipelines
• You have familiarity with platform migrations, user access control models, or third-party integrations

What You'll Be Doing

• Manage and support a team of 7–8 engineers developing the core RightsDB, a new foundational database that serves as a centralized repository for copyright and rightsholder ownership data
• Support ongoing RightsDB work, including enabling new video content to more automatically make its way to platform by implementing a Publishing Deny List (PDL) and ingesting UGC rights via DDEX
• Provide mentorship, coaching, and technical guidance to team members to help them identify their growth path and develop their skills aligned to their goals
• Foster a positive, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture where individuals feel empowered and supported in their careers
• Partner closely with the product manager and cross-functional stakeholders (design, legal, rights operations) to define scope, roadmap, and priorities
• Ensure alignment between business needs and technical implementation and establish squad technical strategy to support healthy delivery cycles
• Manage timelines and ensure reliable, timely feature delivery while scaling project ownership across the team
• Oversee platform operations including performance, security, incident response, and on-call rotations
• Encourage a culture of experimentation, continuous improvement, and technical ownership
• Collaborate with internal teams, including legal, rights operations, and content, to ensure the Spotify Rights Center evolves with regulatory needs and continues to meet expectations of rightsholders

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EMEA region as long as we have a work location (excluding France due to on-call restrictions)
• This team operates within the Central European and GMT time zone for collaboration