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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 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.\nWhat you'll do:\nWork with a cross-functional team to build products that empower artists and record labels across the globe\nContribute to all tiers of our architecture to produce high quality, robust user experiences\nWrite clean, tested, maintainable code\nWork closely with product management to understand client requirements\nDesign, communicate and execute a vision in collaboration with your team and other teams across the technology organization\nParticipate in re-architecture, refinement and technical design of various systems\nYou 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.\nMentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning\nWho you are:\n Seeking 10+ years of software engineering experience in the following areas:\nExperience implementing distributed systems\nExperience in a scripting language (we use Python and JavaScript)\nExperience building frontend applications (we use TypeScript, React, and GraphQL)\nExperience with various database technologies and query languages (we use Neo4j, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, OpenSearch, and more)\nFamiliar with low-latency techniques to help improve page load time and reliability\nExperience with microservices, APIs, and related standards such as REST, HTTP, and OAuth\nComfortable with AWS Cloud technologies\nExperience using log analysis to investigate bugs and performance issues\nExperience writing unit and integration tests\nExperience working in an agile teamThe Ideal Candidate\n\nCan mobilize teams around a vision and help lead execution of that vision\nExperience with data modeling and schema design of real world use cases\nHas prior experience with machine learning builds and release at commercial scale\nDefines best practices and standards within the team and helps build tooling to make those easy to follow\nProactive problem solving\nExperience optimizing tables, schemas and data structures\nAbility to determine sensible KPIs and optimize against them\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 \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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