Ios Team Manager

As an iOS Team Manager, you will be the people manager for a team of iOS engineers embedded across several product squads, contribute to Deezer's iOS technical vision alongside senior engineers, and lead one squad in close partnership with Product and Design to deliver impactful features.

Among your responsibilities, you will:

• Inspire, drive and grow a motivated team of iOS engineers through regular 1:1s, coaching, constructive feedback, and career development conversations.
• Foster cohesion and collaboration across a team whose members are distributed in different product squads, making sure knowledge flows and no one works in isolation.
• Act as the engineering leader of a product squad, partnering with the Product Manager to co-define objectives, surface technical constraints and opportunities early, challenge solutions for greater impact, and drive delivery.
• Own the technical execution within your squad: manage timelines, handle dependencies, escalate risks openly, and partner with stack experts to validate approaches.
• Drive team culture and rituals, ensuring participation, continuous improvement, and follow-through across your squad and the broader iOS team.
• Ensure quality and engineering best practices, adapting working methods to team needs and project phase.
• Collaborate with your Engineering Manager and the iOS Community of Practice to shape and evolve Deezer's iOS technical vision, aligning solutions across stacks.
• Partner with Senior and Expert iOS Engineers to guide architectural choices and code quality across Deezer's iOS ecosystem

People Leadership:A first experience managing a team of software engineersAbility to build trust, create psychological safety, and maintain team cohesion, even when your team members sit in different squadsProduct & Delivery:Proven experience working closely with Product Managers in a cross-functional setup, co-owning objectives and planningAble to connect engineering work to business goals and factor in product impact when making technical trade-offs.Pragmatic and delivery-oriented, able to balance ambition with realistic planningTechnical Foundation:Solid iOS development background; you understand the platform well enough to make sound technical calls and support your engineers across their day-to-day challengesFamiliar with mobile engineering best practices, architecture patterns, and code quality standardsAble to balance a modern engineering vision with the realities of an existing codebase, making pragmatic trade-offs when needed.Culture & Mindset:Transparent communicator who fosters open, honest conversations and collaborationCurious and proactive: you spot friction, question the status quo, and propose pragmatic improvements.At Deezer, diversity drives innovation. Whatever makes you uniquely you, your experiences, your way of thinking, your journey, might be exactly what we need. If this role speaks to you and aligns with your interests and capabilities, even if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications listed, please give it a try and tell us more! #BeYou, postgraduate degree EducationalOccupationalCredential bachelor degree EducationalOccupationalCredential associate degree, * A first experience managing a team of software engineers

• Ability to build trust, create psychological safety, and maintain team cohesion, even when your team members sit in different squads

Product & Delivery:

• Proven experience working closely with Product Managers in a cross-functional setup, co-owning objectives and planning
• Able to connect engineering work to business goals and factor in product impact when making technical trade-offs.
• Pragmatic and delivery-oriented, able to balance ambition with realistic planning

Technical Foundation:

• Solid iOS development background; you understand the platform well enough to make sound technical calls and support your engineers across their day-to-day challenges
• Familiar with mobile engineering best practices, architecture patterns, and code quality standards
• Able to balance a modern engineering vision with the realities of an existing codebase, making pragmatic trade-offs when needed.

Culture & Mindset:

• Transparent communicator who fosters open, honest conversations and collaboration
• Curious and proactive: you spot friction, question the status quo, and propose pragmatic improvements.

LIVE THE MUSIC WITH US From a pioneer tech start-up created in 2007, Deezer has become one of the first French unicorns and the second largest independent music streaming platform in the world. At eighteen years old, we're only just coming of age. Now listed on #EuroNext, Deezer is a rapidly-growing, cutting-edge player in the music streaming market. If you want an environment where you can make your voice heard and be at the forefront of music and tech, look no further! We believe music is all about embracing the things that make us different. Deezer is a vibrant community that celebrates uniqueness, diversity and individuality, and thrives on collaboration. Our international and passionate teams pride themselves on being at the forefront of the music experience, going beyond streaming and helping the world to Live the Music. We're constantly evolving alongside our customers, partners, artists and employees - striving to make Deezer the most personal and innovative streaming service in the world. Ready for an electrifying journey? Apply now and do your part in bringing extraordinary music experiences to people's lives! **** Deezer's Listeners team builds the applications that millions of users rely on every day for their music experience. The team creates reliable and delightful experiences that activate, retain and thrill our users. Our teams are organized into cross-functional, mission-driven squads, each with clear objectives and strong autonomy. Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and QA Partners work side by side within these squads to deliver impactful features at pace., Bienvenue chez Deezer LIVE THE MUSIC WITH US From a pioneer tech start-up created in 2007, Deezer has become one of the first French unicorns and the second largest independent music streaming platform in the world. At eighteen years old, we're only just coming of age. Now listed on #EuroNext, Deezer is a rapidly-growing, cutting-edge player in the music streaming market. If you want an environment where you can make your voice heard and be at the forefront of music and tech, look no further! We believe music is all about embracing the things that make us different. Deezer is a vibrant community that celebrates uniqueness, diversity and individuality, and thrives on collaboration. Our international and passionate teams pride themselves on being at the forefront of the music experience, going beyond streaming and helping the world to Live the Music. We're constantly evolving alongside our customers, partners, artists and employees - striving to make Deezer the most personal and innovative streaming service in the world. Ready for an electrifying journey? Apply now and do your part in bringing extraordinary music experiences to people's lives!****