Engineering Manager

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.

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.

Avanza

Nu söker vi en Engineering Manager till arean Customer Scalability inom Tech som tillsammans med övriga chefer inom Product & Tech arbetar både på en övergripande och strategisk nivå samt inom det specifika produktområdet. Vårt uppdrag är att möjliggöra en skalbar kundtillväxt utan att öka de operativa kostnaderna i samma takt. Du blir en viktig del i arbetet med att skapa vision, mål och engagemang i enlighet med Avanzas strategi. På Avanza tror vi på självstyrande team som tar fram sina egna arbetsprocesser och vi har påbörjat resan mot att utforska AI-drivna arbetssätt. För att förverkliga våra ambitioner jobbar vi insiktsdrivet och i tvärfunktionella team. Vi tror starkt på teamarbete och värdesätter att jobba tillsammans. OM TJÄNSTEN Hela Product & Tech består av 35 utvecklingsteam som tillsammans bygger våra tjänster och erbjudanden. I rollen som Engineering Manager arbetar du nära ett eller två team och med personalansvar för utvecklarna. Den här rollen är kopplad till våra team som bygger och utvecklar Avanzas kund- och kontolivscykel. Vi arbetar för att säkerställa att hela organisationen har tillgång till högkvalitativ, tillförlitlig och uppdaterad kund- och kontodata när behovet uppstår. Som Engineering Manager har du ansvar för att skapa bästa möjliga förutsättningar för ett starkt team och leder dem mot hög kvalitet och effektiva tekniska leveranser. Rollen innebär att kombinera affärsförståelse med teknisk riktning för att skapa konkret värde för både kund och bolag. VEM VI SÖKER Vi söker dig som drivs av att utveckla både människor och teknik. Som Engineering Manager är du en coachande ledare som skapar engagemang och trygghet i teamet. Du är genuint intresserad av människor och motiveras av att se dina medarbetare växa och bidra med sin fulla potential. Rent tekniskt har du en bakgrund inom modern systemutveckling. Du förstår värdet av hög datakvalitet, robust systemarkitektur och väldesignade API:er. Du är nyfiken på hur AI kan förbättra våra arbetssätt och du vill vara med och leda vår molnresa mot GCP. Som ledare ser du till att det tekniska arbetet går hand i hand med produktstrategin. Du är trygg i tekniska vägval och stöttar teamen i att bygga hållbara lösningar, samtidigt som du är van vid att bygga tillitsfulla relationer i en föränderlig miljö. VI SER GÄRNA ATT DU HAR: * Erfarenhet av personalansvar och att leda utvecklare. * Bakgrund inom modern systemutveckling, gärna med fokus på dataintensiva system. * Erfarenhet av molnplattformar (GCP är ett stort plus). * Förståelse för hur man driver förändring och tekniska satsningar. * Nyfikenhet på AI och datadriven utveckling. * Relevant högskoleutbildning eller motsvarande erfarenhet. ANSÖKAN Skicka din ansökan genom att klicka på knappen "Ansök" nedan. Urvalet sker löpande, så skicka gärna in din ansökan så snart som möjligt. Har du några frågor kring tjänsten? Välkommen att kontakta Linn Keife, Area Lead Customer Scalability, på linn.keife@avanza.se. OBS! I och med semestertider kommer vår återkoppling att dröja lite, och vi beräknar att titta närmare på din ansökan i början av augusti. Tack för ditt tålamod och varmt välkommen med din ansökan och ha en fin sommar! Vi undanber oss vänligen men bestämt kontakt från rekryteringsföretag och annonssäljare.