Software Engineering Technical Leader

Meet the Team

Join Cisco's Webex Media engineering site in Stockholm, where we craft the meeting experience that connects people and businesses around the world. We are a highly motivated, startup-like team within a global organization, combining the impact and resources of Cisco with the agility and camaraderie of a smaller group.

Your Impact

• Lead, coach, and develop 8-12 developers building shared real-time media platform components, APIs, and cross-platform runtime layers.

• Set direction through goals, priorities, planning, weekly check-ins, 1:1s, and follow-up.

• Own execution, delivery predictability, quality gates, operational health, and agile continuous improvement.

• Manage people growth, performance feedback, development plans, individual performance factor recommendations, salary-review input, hiring, and retention.

Minimum Qualifications:

• MSc (or equivalent) in Software Engineering or a related fiel

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience

• 3+ years as an engineering manager or formal people leader for software development teams

• Strong C/C++ background

• Native platform, real-time, or performance-sensitive software experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with media streaming, real-time media platforms, conferencing, and relevant protocols.

• Experience leading cross-platform media platform architecture, patterns, and build tools.

• Experience growing senior engineers through feedback, delegation, mentorship, and career development.

• Strong agile delivery leadership across planning, prioritization, risk management, and retrospectives.

• AI responsibly and ensures AI-generated code is critically reviewed.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.