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# Lead Software Engineer, Pub Admin

- **Company:** Bmg Uk & Ireland
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Databases, Data Structures, Query Languages, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Log Analysis, Machine Learning, MySQL, Neo4j, OAuth, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Scripting, ReactJS, Snowflake, Integration Tests, Low Latency, Apache Kafka, Graphql, OpenSearch, Microservices
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/lead-software-developer/bmg-uk-ireland-job108224831

## About the Role

* Seeking 10+ 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, OpenSearch, 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
 * The Ideal Candidatem
 * 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
 * Has prior experience with machine learning builds and release at commercial scale
 * 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

## 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
 * You 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.
 * Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning