Lead Software Engineer, Pub Admin

At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. 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.

Today, 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.

Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.

Sony Music’s Product, Design, Engineering & Global Operations (PDEGO) team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within our Pub Admin product team in our King’s Cross office (London).  Pub Admin is our unified, modern rights and royalty platform - where our engineers help transform a complex domain into simple, scalable, high-performance product solutions for Sony Music’s global songwriting community.

What you'll 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
• You will champion the adoption of AI-powered engineering tools to accelerate our dev cycles, while also architecting AI-driven product features that deliver innovative, intuitive solutions for our partners and artist community.
• Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning

Who you are:

• Seeking 10+ years of software engineering experience in the following areas:
• Experience implementing distributed systems
• Experience in a scripting language (we use Python and JavaScript)
• Experience building frontend applications (we use TypeScript, React, and GraphQL)
• Experience with various database technologies and query languages (we use 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

  The Ideal Candidate

• 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

What we give you:

• You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day 
• A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best 
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community 
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next 
• We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives 
• We 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 

Equal Opportunities

As 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.

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Please note that applicants must be at least 18 years of age.