Engineering Manager

Join our global force of 500+ innovators, blending the latest in tech with the greatest in soundtracking, from our Stockholm HQ to offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Oslo, and Seoul. We're an industry leader with a startup mentality. We take what we do seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Creating and collaborating to transform the sound of streaming, content, and culture. Come join us— and let the world feel your work.

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead two of our core services teams, focused on the music area. The Sound Production and Artist Experience (SPARX) team as well as the Sound Platform (SPLAT) team. This is a pivotal role where you will oversee personnel, delivery, processes, tech strategy, and cross-team technical collaboration. You'll be working with one of our core domains - managing the systems that ingest and manage the music provided by our artists.

With about 4 engineers on each team, they contribute value by building a system to classify and tag our music, building efficient administrative tools and developing platform functionality for other teams to access our extensive music catalog. Currently, the teams are enhancing its metadata model to prepare our music catalog for exciting future applications.

Key Responsibilities:
In this role, you'll have a significant influence on how the teams operate, defining the technical roadmap and target architecture. You will be managing diverse and dynamic teams and your leadership will be key in fostering a high level of psychological safety and cultivating team members across all levels of seniority.

Lead and support the teams in development processes and practices such as standups, mob programming, and facilitating design sessions.

Conduct 1:1s to guide team members' growth, improving their skills, team dynamics, and career progression.

Collaborate closely with the Product Manager and stakeholders to ensure sustainable, high-quality software delivery at a fast pace.

Own the engineering plan concerning security, legacy, capacity, and quality.

Manage cross-team technical deliveries and communication.

Who You Are:

An experienced leader capable of coaching and growing teams of engineers, across all seniority levels.

A strategic thinker who can create a vision for the team and turn it into reality.

Someone who thrives on collaboration, working closely with the Product Manager and other stakeholders to ensure company-wide alignment.

A decision-maker who can lead through coaching but knows when to step in to make key decisions.

Requirements:

Strong technical background with expertise in modern software development practices, backend development (Go/Kotlin/Python), microservices, APIs and cloud technology.

Solid understanding of system design and architecture.

Proven experience managing and growing multiple engineering teams.

Ability to build a psychologically safe work environment for your teams.

Nice-to-have's:

Experience in the music industry and/or sound production.

Familiarity with GCP, BigQuery and experience working in a modern, product-driven company.

Join us and be part of a central team, where your work will directly impact the core of Epidemic Sound's business and shape the future of sound production and management

Equal opportunity employer

We believe that bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives makes for a healthy workplace, a more successful business and a better world. We value diversity and encourage everyone to come and soundtrack the world with us.

Application

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