Lead Software Engineer, Pub Admin

The role

This person will build products that empower artists and record labels by contributing to all tiers of architecture. They will work with a cross-functional team to produce high quality user experiences and design technical visions.

What you will do

• Work with a cross-functional team to build products that empower artists and record labels across the globe
• Contribute to all tiers of our architecture to produce high quality, robust user experiences
• Write clean, tested, maintainable code
• Work closely with product management to understand client requirements
• Design, communicate and execute a vision in collaboration with your team and other teams across the technology organization
• Participate in re-architecture, refinement and technical design of various systems
• Champion the adoption of AI-powered engineering tools to accelerate dev cycles
• Architect AI-driven product features
• Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience implementing distributed systems
• Experience in a scripting language (Python and JavaScript)
• Experience building frontend applications (TypeScript, React, and GraphQL)
• Experience with various database technologies and query languages (Neo4j, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, OpenSearch, and more)
• Familiar with low-latency techniques to help improve page load time and reliability
• Experience with microservices, APIs, and related standards such as REST, HTTP, and OAuth
• Comfortable with AWS Cloud technologies
• Experience using log analysis to investigate bugs and performance issues
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Experience working in an agile team

Nice to have

• Can mobilize teams around a vision and help lead execution of that vision
• Experience with data modeling and schema design of real world use cases
• Has prior experience with machine learning builds and release at commercial scale
• Defines best practices and standards within the team and helps build tooling to make those easy to follow
• Proactive problem solving
• Experience optimizing tables, schemas and data structures
• Ability to determine sensible KPIs and optimize against them

Benefits

• Modern office environment
• Investment in professional growth and development
• Platform to contribute to social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• Private medical cover
• Generous pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Music industry perks
• Time off over winter break

Before you apply

• Applicants must be at least 18 years of age
• You will need to agree to the terms of the privacy policy before submitting your information

About the company

Sony Music Entertainment works in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. It is a member of the Sony family of global companies.