Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Engineering Manager role sits in the kind of internal platform work that underpins modern SaaS at scale: standardising how product teams collect, ship, and trust event data. With two new teams forming inside a Data Collection product area, the scope is oriented around foundational tooling and SDKs that touch many client surfaces, which is a common inflection point for mature SaaS organisations looking to improve reliability and developer experience.
For a SaaS career, the value is in learning how platform decisions propagate across an ecosystem, from instrumentation choices to downstream analytics and product iteration. Leading work that spans event delivery, behaviour instrumentation, and multi-platform SDK ownership builds transferable judgement in operating shared services, setting technical strategy, and aligning multiple stakeholders around conventions that reduce friction for product engineering teams.
This role tends to suit an engineering leader who enjoys building teams and shaping technical direction while staying close to delivery. It is a strong match for someone motivated by cross-cutting problems, internal customer empathy, and long-lived systems where success is measured by adoption, consistency, and operational confidence rather than a single feature launch.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
We’re launching two brand-new teams within the Data Collection Product Area of Spotify’s Data Platform Studio, each made up of 4–5 engineers across a mix of experience levels.
Team Palico will shape the future of developer experience for data collection at Spotify. By building a unified layer of intuitive, powerful tools on top of our core platforms—Gabito for event delivery and UBI for user-behavior instrumentation—the team will empower engineers across Spotify to build with confidence and speed.
The second team, whose mission is now coming into focus, will take end-to-end ownership of Spotify’s Event Sender SDKs across Android, iOS, JavaScript, and C++—software that sits at the very edge of our ecosystem and underpins how data flows from every Spotify client. Together, these teams offer a rare chance to build foundational systems from the ground up, influence technical strategy from day one, and leave a lasting mark on how Spotify understands and evolves its products through data.
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What You'll Do- You will build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development.
- Create and maintain an opinionated Technical Strategy that aligns with the rest of the Platform Mission and Spotify.
- Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers and product managers in solving exciting and challenging problems across the platform.
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the things we value.
- Be an active part of the Product Area leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.
- Grow the technical expertise of the team.
Who You Are- You will build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development.
- Create and maintain an opinionated Technical Strategy that aligns with the rest of the Platform Mission and Spotify.
- Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers and product managers in solving exciting and challenging problems across the platform.
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the things we value.
- Be an active part of the Product Area leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.
- Grow the technical expertise of the team.
Where You'll Be- This role is based in Stockholm, Sweden or London, UK
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
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