Senior Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 15, 2026. Warner Music Group scores B on the Alion truth index.
About The Job:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help maintain, modernize, and innovate the core engineering applications that powers our entire music publishing business lifecycle-from rights management and contract administration to complex royalty processing and global licensing management.
If you love music, thrive on solving complex business issues and scale challenges, and are passionate about building mission-critical systems that songwriters and rightsholders rely on, this role is for you.
Your Role:
Reimagine and implement the future of tech for the music industry
Work as part of a dynamic and highly effective team
Own the creation and delivery of highly innovative products
Learn and grow as a professional through close collaboration with your team members and engineering leaders, and by being part of a culture of continuous improvement and learning
Here you’ll get to:
Implement maintainable solutions with high quality and reliability that can scale as our business continues to grow and expand.
Work with the team and leaders to identify new opportunities to improve the quality, scale, and efficiency of our systems.
Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and other eng teams, clarifying technical requirements and providing support for system integrations and data engineering.
Have end-to-end ownership of team deliverables, processes and execution, ensuring the team reliably delivers on their technical objectives.
Provide mentorship to other engineers, fostering their professional growth and success
Respond to incidents and perform on-call duties with an eye towards root cause fixes and improvements
About you:
You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related field
You are hands on senior engineer who writes code, conducts code reviews, and participates in setting engineering best practices
You are an effective communicator who collaborates well cross-functionally
You have 6+ years of experience working in Java or another object-oriented language, with strong full-stack experience.
You have strong experience with relational databases and data model design
You have experience in building projects with good abstractions and clean architecture
You have strong debugging skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues
You have a drive to grow, learn, and master the craft of software development
You have experience writing design docs for your features, and serve as design reviewer for design docs of your peers
We’d love it if you also had:
Experience with AWS
Familiarity with large-scale data processing systems and event driven architectures is a bonus.
High sense of ownership and a drive to deliver impact in a fast-paced, evolving, ambiguous environment