Engineering Manager – Monetisation

Schibsted

Are you an engineering leader who enjoys creating clarity, improving engineering effectiveness, and helping engineers deliver with confidence? Do you care about iOS, Android, and Web capability as much as you care about people leadership? If so, we’d love to hear from you. As a part of our vision to enrich people’s lives through stories, we are strengthening the engineering foundation behind listener and subscriber experience by hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our iOS, Android, and Web engineers. In this role, you will help create the clarity, capability, and delivery conditions behind high-quality user-facing product development. This is a great opportunity to increase your impact at a fast-moving audio company backed by Schibsted Media, and to work with teams that combine quality engineering, product thinking, and care for the listener experience. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Lead, support, and develop a distributed group of iOS, Android, and Web engineers through coaching, feedback, growth planning, and clear role expectations. * Foster an inclusive and accountable environment where employees and consultants across locations have context and support. * Maintain visibility of capability, ownership, staffing needs, consultant dependency, and succession risks across the client-side engineering domain. * Support engineering strategy execution by partnering with product and tech leadership. * Surface technical debt, quality risks, release risks, infrastructure constraints, and operational needs early to enable informed decisions. * Strengthen engineering standards around maintainability, observability, security, performance, and operational excellence. * Help teams balance platform-specific excellence with cross-platform alignment where it improves user experience, delivery efficiency, quality, or maintainability. WHAT YOU BRING You combine people leadership with the technical understanding needed to support iOS, Android, Web, and user-facing product trade-offs. You create clarity in complex environments and help teams improve how they work. * Experience leading, coaching, mentoring or developing engineers. * Experience working with distributed or hybrid engineering teams. Previous management experience in this setup is a plus. * Understanding of modern software delivery practices and the quality needs of user-facing products. * Understanding of mobile release processes and the quality assurance needs of mobile releases. * Ability to balance engineering standards with team autonomy. * Ability to explain engineering trade-offs, risks, and constraints clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Clear communication and relationship-building skills. * Cost-conscious approach to staffing, tooling, infrastructure, and technical decisions. * Professional-level English communication skills. Swedish is beneficial. BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE * Experience leading mixed teams of employees and consultants. * Experience working with iOS, Android, Web, frontend, mobile release processes, web conversion flows, playback or listening experiences, experimentation, design systems, accessibility, or app-store release cycles. * Experience with subscription, media, audio, video, consumer products, or multi-market organisations. * Experience improving release confidence, production quality signals, test strategy, analytics instrumentation, frontend performance, or developer experience. * Experience supporting AI-assisted engineering, experimentation capability, or engineering productivity improvements. WHY JOIN PODME? At Podme, we believe in the power of audio stories to inform, entertain, and inspire. Backed by Schibsted, one of the Nordics’ leading media groups, we’re on a mission to deliver the best of podcasting and audiobooks to listeners across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. * Join a growing platform with a loyal and expanding user base. * Lead the iOS, Android, and Web engineering competence domain behind the product surfaces where listeners and subscribers experience Podme most directly. * Work closely with product, technology, and business stakeholders on problems that affect core listener and subscriber journeys. * Hybrid setup based in Krakow, with collaboration across Poland, Sweden, and Bosnia * Travel to Krakow occasionally, approximately 1-2 times per year * Great benefits through Schibsted and Podme * Free access to premium Podme content and audiobooks Help us build the engineering foundation behind the Nordic audio experience. Your next great challenge starts here. Apply now and let’s build something great together. Please note that due to the summer vacation period, we will start reviewing applications and contacting candidates from the beginning of August. Thank you for your patience. ABOUT PODME Podme is the place for premium podcasts and audiobooks. With over 350,000 paying subscribers, we’re available in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, and part of Schibsted Media since 2021. Our vision is to enrich people’s lives through stories, which embodies our core belief in the power of narratives to bring joy, meaning, and connection to individuals. We strive to create effortless and habit-forming audio and product experiences that resonate with the listener and add value in their everyday lives. We’re a friendly and passionate team of +80 people, here to make listening effortless, inspiring, and part of everyday life. Backed by Schibsted Media, the largest media group in Scandinavia, we are now on a growth journey which requires us to strengthen the engineering foundation needed to support product complexity, reliability, and sustainable delivery.

Voi Technology

YOUR MISSION AT VOI As an Engineering Manager at Voi, you will lead and support two small cross‑functional product teams – Fleet Care and Fleet Management – together responsible for the software that powers our fleet operations. This includes apps used both on the streets and in our warehouses, powered by complex optimisation algorithms and machine learning. You will report directly to the CTO and work closely with Product and other R&D leaders to ensure high‑quality delivery while fostering a positive, empowering and collaborative team culture. This is an excellent opportunity to combine technical depth with people leadership and have a tangible impact on the micromobility industry. * Lead and support the Fleet Care and Fleet Management engineering teams, developing our apps and tools that keep our fleet of vehicles running smoothly. * Partner with Product to define roadmaps, set goals and drive high‑quality delivery, balancing short‑term operational needs, continuous learning and iteration, and long‑term technical vision. * Champion engineering excellence by guiding architectural decisions, fostering good development practices and promoting continuous improvement to maintain a sustainably rapid delivery pace in a complex business environment. * Drive and facilitate a shift of our core data models and software architecture in the operations area. * Coach and develop engineers, supporting their growth through feedback, mentorship and clear expectations. * Drive cross‑team initiatives and shared technical efforts across our broader R&D organisation. * Actively foster and improve AI‑assisted development methods and tooling within the team and across the R&D organisation. * Contribute to a well‑functioning and collaborative engineering culture aligned with Voi’s company values, and be a driver for diversity, inclusion and psychological safety within your teams. WHAT YOU NEED TO EMBARK You are an empowering engineering leader who combines a strong technical foundation with a people‑first mindset. You enjoy working in a fast‑paced, evolving environment, and you know how to create clarity, enable good decisions and help your teams do their best work. * Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. * 5+ years of hands-on experience with modern tech stacks, building reliable and complex software in a fast-paced environment. * 2+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, with a strong focus on empowerment, collaboration and delivery. * Ability to engage in technical discussions, understand trade‑offs and guide technical decisions together with your team. * Eagerness to explore and apply the potential of AI both to your own work and that of the team. * Strong communication and problem‑solving skills. * Fluent in English, both written and spoken. Don’t meet every requirement? If you are excited about this role and our mission, and have relevant, transferable skills, we encourage you to apply – even if you don’t check every box. WHY VOI? Working at Voi is more than just a job; our People Promise includes a personal voyage where you will grow as a professional and be a part of a team and culture that builds something meaningful for society. In addition to this you’ll have the opportunity to: * Join Europe’s #1 micromobility operator and one of the fastest‑growing scale‑ups. * Get “skin in the game” through our employee options programme. * Enjoy unlimited free Voi rides and a dog‑friendly office (where applicable). * Work together with inspiring, motivated and fun colleagues towards a common goal. * Join the micromobility revolution and be a part of creating sustainable cities made for living, free from noise and pollution.

Nextory

You know that bit where every company says they’re “changing the world”? Yeah, it can feel a little forced. But we like to think our story actually has some realness to it. Our story begins with Shadi Bitar and Ninos Malki, who came to Sweden from Syria as kids and discovered that books could be a bridge – helping them learn the language, understand the culture, and explore new worlds. A thought emerged, what if everyone could have that? And just like that, Nextory was born – your all-access pass to read, listen, and discover new perspectives without limits. And now, we’re searching for an Engineering Manager who’s ready to lead the way. Turning ideas into experiences that inspire people to start their reading journey with us. Let us tell you about the role 📚 As an Engineering Manager at Nextory, you’ll lead our Join Team – the talented group shaping the web experience at the very beginning of the customer journey with us. You’ll play a key role in inspiring potential readers to take their first step into the world of Nextory, combining technical leadership with people development to create seamless, engaging and high-performing digital experiences. Your work will include: * Managing and empowering a team of six engineers to grow, collaborate, and deliver impact. * Ensuring technical excellence and delivery quality in close collaboration with product and design. * Driving transparency, collaboration, and innovation across teams. The main character we’re looking for 👀 You have a solid background as a software engineer and several years of experience leading developers in a fast-moving digital environment. You take pride in building teams that consistently deliver results, and have fun doing it. We believe you thrive on creating an environment where people grow, perform at their best and turn great ideas into measurable results. We believe you: * Bring experience from full-stack environments, with a true passion for frontend development. * Feel confident working with JavaScript and TypeScript with a Java backend. * Understand how to build high-performing web applications, CI/CD pipelines and smart SEO practices * Have a track record of improving customer onboarding journeys and turning insights into great user experiences. The Nextory way of working 🏠 At Nextory, we believe a strong and inclusive culture is key to our success – and that culture flourishes when we meet and collaborate in person as much as possible. That’s why we spend the majority of the working time at our beautiful office! We are based in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in Paris and Bangalore. Our hybrid work policy includes four days in the office and Wednesdays as a work-from-home day. Your next story starts here We look forward to your application 💫. Applications are reviewed continuously, but please note that due to summer vacations, our response times may be a little longer than usual. If you have any questions about the role, please contact erika.thorslund@nextory.com. Please note that we do not offer relocation and that a six-month probationary period applies.