Senior Developer

With a global footprint, the Universal Music Group Royalty and Copyright Product Team designs, develops, delivers and maintains a number of technical solutions to calculate royalty accountings in a timely and accurate manner to our valued artists. We're also providing them with an extent and detailed visibility of these earning from various sources of digital incomes.

The team continuously collaborates with our international business teams to deliver innovative solutions as well as supporting best practices and new processes for a better royalty flow., The Senior Developer will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining backend services using .NET Core / ASP.NET Core on AWS, with a strong focus on serverless architectures and event-driven systems using Kafka / AWS MSK. The Senior Developer will also work with containerised workloads on Kubernetes, and have exposure to modern DevOps and CI/CD practices., The Senior Developer will be part of an agile product team, collaborating closely with product owners, business analysts, engineers, architects, QAs and DevOps to deliver secure, performant and reliable solutions., Be Technical

• Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs using .NET Core / ASP.NET Core.
• Develop modern web UIs (React / Angular / TypeScript or similar) and integrate them with backend services.
• Develop and support AWS serverless solutions (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3).
• Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka (preferably on AWS MSK) for high-throughput, near real-time processing.
• Work with Docker and Kubernetes to build, deploy and run containerised services.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, secure and resilient cloud architectures.
• Work with DevOps engineers to enhance CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and deployment processes.
• Model and optimise data across SQL and NoSQL stores.

Be Collaborative

• Drive code quality: write clean, efficient, well-documented and reusable code.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions and agile ceremonies.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve monitoring, logging and alerting across services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver high-quality solutions on time.
• Build positive relationships with rest of development teams.
• Strong communication, and interpersonal skills.

Do you have experience in TypeScript?, Must have

• Strong commercial experience with .NET Core / ASP.NET Core for backend development.
• Proven experience building solutions on AWS, ideally including serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with Kafka (preferably AWS MSK) for messaging/stream processing.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Good understanding of DevOps concepts, with practical experience using Git and working with CI/CD tooling (e.g. GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI or similar).
• Experience with both SQL (e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Exposure to Big Data tools/platforms and data pipelines (streaming and/or batch) is strongly preferred.
• Comfortable working in an agile environment (Scrum/Kanban).
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to take ownership, solve complex problems and mentor more junior engineers where required.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering systems on GCP.
• Knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform).
• Any experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and/or MLOps (e.g. model deployment pipelines, monitoring and lifecycle management) is highly desirable.
• Understanding of compliance requirement around SDLC, ITGC,ITAC.

Key Behavioural/Personality Traits

The Senior Developer will demonstrate strong collaboration skillset with the rest of the development team, as well as producing high-quality code and showing initiative by identifying solutions to increase productivity.

Pulled from the full job description

• Annual leave
• Employee discount
• Company pension
• Private medical insurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Discounted gym membership, * Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
• Private Medical Insurance
• 25 paid days of annual leave
• Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
• Holiday Purchase scheme
• Dental and Travel Insurance options
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Cars
• Subsidised Gym Membership
• Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)

Just So You Know…

The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.

It's the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world's leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does., We are Universal Music Group UK - the UK's leading music-based entertainment company. We exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. We help UK artists produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to inspire and entertain fans at home and around the world.