Lead Software Engineer

Sony Music; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading music entertainment company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for their King's Cross office in London. The ideal candidate will have over 18 years of software engineering experience, particularly with frontend application development using TypeScript, React, and GraphQL. Responsibilities include collaborating with teams to enhance user experience, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to complex architecture designs. This role offers a vibrant community, professional growth opportunities, and excellent benefits such as private medical cover and a generous pension scheme.

Benefits

Private medical cover

Generous pension scheme

Life assurance

Income protection

Winter break time off

Qualifications

• 18+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with low-latency techniques.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers.
• Experience optimizing tables and data structures.

Responsibilities

• Build products empowering artists and record labels.
• Contribute to high quality user experiences.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote continuous learning.

Skills

Frontend application development

Experience with TypeScript

Experience with React

Experience with GraphQL

Microservices and APIs

AWS Cloud technologies

Agile teamwork

Problem solving

Tools

Neo4j

Kafka

MySQL

Snowflake

OpenSearch

Job description

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’s Product, Design, Engineering & Global Operations (PDEGO) team is seeking 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
• 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 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
• 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 optimise 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.

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Please note that applicants must be at least 18 years of age.