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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 and Global Operations (PDEGO) organization is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team in our London office. You’ll help build and evolve the platforms that power some of the most critical areas of our global business and support artists, songwriters, labels, and partners around the world.\nThis is an opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges at scale while working closely with product managers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional partners to modernize the systems that support the music industry.\nWhat you'll do:\nBuild and enhance scalable applications that support Sony Music’s global products and platforms\nDesign, develop, and maintain high-quality software across the full application stack\nCollaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into reliable technical solutions\nWrite clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with a focus on long-term quality and system reliability\nParticipate in architecture discussions, technical design, and modernization initiatives across our platforms\nDesign APIs and services that integrate with internal systems and third-party platforms\nHelp improve application performance, observability, scalability, and operational excellence\nMentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing\nPartner closely with engineering leadership to establish engineering best practices and continuously improve development processes\nTroubleshoot production issues using logs, monitoring, and root-cause analysis to ensure platform stability\nWho you are:\n8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining complex software applications\nExperience implementing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures\nStrong experience with Python and JavaScript\nExperience building frontend applications using TypeScript and React\nExperience working with databases and query technologies such as MySQL, Snowflake, Neo4j, Kafka, OpenSearch, or similar platforms\nExperience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with HTTP and OAuth standards\nComfortable working within AWS cloud environments\nExperience writing unit, integration, and automated tests\nExperience investigating production issues through logging, monitoring, and performance analysis\nExperience working in Agile development environments\nStrong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams\nInterest in learning the complexities of the systems and business processes that support the global music industry\nThe ideal candidate\nExperience building software for financial, accounting, ERP, payments, e-commerce, content, data, or other highly complex and data-intensive business systems\nExperience modeling complex business domains and translating business rules into scalable software solutions\nStrong understanding of data modeling, schema design, and relational databases\nExperience optimizing application performance, database queries, and large-scale data processing\nPassion for improving engineering standards, developer tooling, and technical documentation\nDemonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives without direct people-management responsibility\nCurious, collaborative, and proactive, with a continuous-improvement mindset\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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