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We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.\nToday, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we're committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.\nSony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.\nSony Music's Product, Design, Engineering & Global Operations (PDEGO) team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our engineering team in our London office. Our PDEGO suite powers all of Sony Music's most critical business capabilities-ensuring monetization, data and analytics depth, marketing and music release at scale for artists across the globe.\nAs a technical lead, you'll help shape the architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technical direction of one of our product spaces at global scale. You'll work closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to modernize systems while mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across the team.\nWhat you'll do:\nLead the technical design and implementation of scalable software solutions supporting Sony Music's critical global B2B2C platforms.\nDrive architecture decisions across distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, and platform services.\nPartner closely with Product, Operations, and teams of stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions.\nWrite clean, maintainable, well-tested code while establishing engineering best practices across the team\nLead technical design sessions, architecture reviews, and modernization initiatives\nDesign resilient services and integrations with internal and third-party platforms\nChampion application reliability, performance, observability, and operational excellence\nMentor engineers through technical coaching, code reviews, and architectural guidance\nIdentify technical debt and lead initiatives to improve scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity\nTroubleshoot complex production issues and drive root cause analysis across distributed systems\nCollaborate with engineering leadership to define the long-term technical roadmap for the platform you are focused on\nWho you are:\nSeeking 10+ years of software engineering experience in the following areas:\nExperience implementing distributed systems\nStrong experience with Python and JavaScript\nExperience building frontend applications using TypeScript and React\nExperience with various database technologies and query languages (we use Snowflake, MySQL, Neo4j, Kafka, OpenSearch, and more)\nExperience designing microservices and APIs using REST, HTTP, and OAuth\nComfortable with AWS cloud technologies\nExperience using log analysis and monitoring tools to investigate production issues and improve reliability\nExperience writing unit, integration, and automated tests\nExperience working within Agile development teams\nExcellent communication skills with the ability to influence engineering and business stakeholders\nPassion for solving complex technical problems and mentoring engineers\nThe ideal candidate\nDeep understanding of software architecture, domain modeling, and scalable system design\nExperience designing data models and optimizing schemas for complex business domains\nExperience working with large datasets and high-volume systems\nCan mobilize engineering teams around a technical vision and lead execution across multiple initiatives\nEstablishes engineering best practices, coding standards, and development processes that improve quality and delivery\nStrong systems-thinking mindset with the ability to balance immediate business needs against long-term platform investments\nDemonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives without direct people management responsibility\nPassionate about mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of technical excellence\nInterest in music, technology, and building systems that directly support artists and creators\nWhat we give you:\nYou join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day \nA modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best \nHybrid work environment: Our London office is designed for collaboration, offering a balanced hybrid setup (3 days in office / 2 days remote)\nInvestment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community \nThe space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next \nWe give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives \nWe provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks. There’s also time off over winter break \nEqual Opportunities\nAs an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.\nWe employ, retain, promote and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence and talent. 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