Senior Software Engineer, Accounting & Royalties

Sony Music
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Clean Code Principles
JavaScript
API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Databases
Data Structures
Query Languages
Distributed Systems
Elasticsearch
Python
Log Analysis
MySQL
Neo4j
OAuth
Software Engineering
TypeScript
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
React
Snowflake
Integration Tests
Low Latency
Kafka
GraphQL
Microservices

Job description

  • 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
  • Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning

Requirements

Do you have experience in TypeScript?, * Seeking 8+ 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, Elasticsearch, 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
  • 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

Benefits & conditions

  • 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.

About the company

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.

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