Lead Software Engineer, Pub Admin

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer within our Pub Admin product team in our King’s Cross office (London). Pub Admin is our unified, modern rights and royalty platform – where our engineers help transform a complex domain into simple, scalable, high‑performance product solutions for Sony Music’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
• Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning

Who you are:

• Seeking 18+ years of software engineering experience in the following areas:
• Experience implementing distributed systems
• Experience in a scripting language (Python, JavaScript)
• Experience building frontend applications (TypeScript, React, GraphQL)
• Experience with various database technologies and query languages (Neo4j, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, OpenSearch etc.)
• Familiar with low‑latency techniques to improve page load time and reliability
• Experience with microservices, APIs, and related standards such as REST, HTTP, 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
• 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

What we give you:

• 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
• 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, and 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. We employ, retain, promote and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We apply this policy without regard to any individual’s sex, race, religion, origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition or disability. Please note that applicants must be at least 18 years of age.