At a Glance
- Tasks: Build innovative products that empower artists and record labels globally.
- Company: Join Sony Music, a pioneer in the music industry with a vibrant culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy private medical cover, generous pension, and unique music industry perks.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team committed to social impact and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in music while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in software engineering with experience in distributed systems and frontend applications.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
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 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.
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 Java Script)
- Experience building frontend applications (we use Type Script, React, and Graph QL)
- Experience with various database technologies and query languages (we use Neo4j, Kafka, My SQL, 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
- 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 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.
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.
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Senior Software Engineer, Pub Admin employer: Sony Music Global Job Board
At Sony Music, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, particularly for our Principal Software Engineer role in the vibrant King's Cross office. Our culture fosters innovation and collaboration, providing ample opportunities for professional growth while working on cutting-edge technology that empowers artists globally. With a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, alongside a comprehensive benefits package, including private medical cover and generous time off, we ensure our employees thrive in a supportive and dynamic environment.
Contact Details:
Sony Music Global Job Board Recruitment Team
