Senior Software Engineer

Sony Music Product Design Engineering and Global Operations (PDEGO) is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Pub Admin development team in our King s Cross office (London). Pub Admin is our unified, modern rights and royalty platform - where our engineers help transform a historically complex domain into simple, scalable, high-performance products for Sony s global songwriting community.

What you ll do:

• 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

Who you are:

• 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