Software Engineer

Your Role:

The role is within the Insights Services team that powers the data products, insights, and APIs used across WMG applications, such as the WMG One and the Pulse (Artist and Songwriter) applications. We provide meaningful, actionable, fresh, and timely insights to empower our customers to make informed, effective decisions. The Insights Services team owns the production of micro insights, such as big movers in key metrics, and the APIs serving for both micro and scaled insights. An example of a micro insight is "Your track grew streams by more than 10% today!" This is a unique opportunity to be a part of a new, high-performing engineering center of excellence and drive significant impact for WMG's technology initiatives.

This role will collaborate closely with our North American Engineering teams to synchronize strategies, processes, and objectives. This is a hybrid position that requires you to work onsite at our Bangalore office a few days per week. We need strong engineers who love music, data, and building world-class systems that scale to solve problems.

Responsibilities:

• Reimagine and implement the future of tech for the music industry
• Work as part of a dynamic and highly effective team
• Own features though full development lifecycle - design, creation, test, deployment, maintenance
• Implement maintainable solutions with high quality and reliability that can scale as our business continues to grow and expand
• Learn and grow as a professional through close collaboration with your team members and engineering leaders, and by being part of culture of continuous improvement and learning

About You:

• You have an undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related field
• You have at least 4 years of experience in backend or full stack development
• You have a deep knowledge of AWS or other large cloud computing environment
• You have strong distributed systems skills: How to make things fast and scalable, how to measure things (e.g. latency, throughput)
• You have strong operational excellence best practices: Testing, monitoring, paging, and incident management
• You have a strong understanding of developing APIs, backend services, databases, data pipelines, data warehousing
• Tech stack consists of Databricks Data Products (analytical data, reverse-ETL, Lakebase/Postgres performance serving), Snowflake, Python for backend, TypeScript and React for frontend, and AWS. Experience in this tech stack is a plus although not mandatory
• You have a high sense of ownership and a drive to deliver impact in a fast-paced, evolving, ambiguous environment
• 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