Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d) - Royalty Calculation - Germany/UK/Spain - Remote or Hybrid

ICE; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

ICE, a purpose-driven organisation, seeks a software developer to play a central role in music royalty processing. The ideal candidate will oversee the development and maintenance of the processing engine, focusing on scalable architectures and collaborating across teams. Join us to impact the music industry positively and thrive in a dynamic, flexible work environment.

Benefits

Competitive local benefits

Flexible working options

Health initiatives

Pension scheme

Training opportunities

Company events

Enhanced holiday allowance

Qualifications

• Strong background in design and implementation of service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with large-scale systems and event-driven architectures.
• Proficient in JVM languages like Java and Scala.

Responsibilities

• Drive the full lifecycle of applications including analysis, design, and operations.
• Collaborate closely with developers and product owners.
• Mentor and coach colleagues.

Skills

Scalable architectures

Service-oriented architectures

Domain-Driven Design

Event-driven architectures

Data handling

Proficient with JVM

DevOps principles

Test Driven Development

Version Control

Tools

Apache Kafka

AWS

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

Job description

About ICE

ICE is a purpose-driven organisation, founded by rightsholders, for rightsholders.
We exist to support songwriters, enabling societies and publishers to accurately compensate them when their work is used internationally.
We operate at the exciting intersection of technology, music, and data.

Since our 2010 launch, we have paid billions to rightsholders through deep expertise in Copyright, Processing and Licensing.
Our collaboration with stakeholders across the industry delivers best practice, new processes & innovative solutions for better royalty flows.
Strategic investment in technology enables us to process trillions of streams, to deliver the maximum revenue for rightsholders.

ICE has grown to distribute more than €1bn in royalties per year, licensing music services such as Spotify, Apple, YouTube and TikTok.

About the Team

In royalty processing domain we are building scalable, event-driven services. We prioritize rapid release cycles, code quality, and collaboration with our business partners. We optimise our delivery process via platform that enables seamless testing, deployment, and monitoring across our entire technology stack.

Our values include:

• taking responsibility of initiatives to completion,
• embrace autonomy without constant direction and control,
• continuous learning and improvement,
• clear communication and teamwork,
• high-quality software that drives impact,
• we run our own services.

Our current technical stack includes:

• backend services with Scala Typelevel (Cats Effect and FS2),
• service communication via Kafka (Confluent Cloud) with versioned Protobuf schema,
• infrastructure automation with Pulumi (Typescript),
• our infrastructure is hosted at AWS (most used: ECS, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora),
• Github Actions for builds and workflow automation,
• DataDog for monitoring and alerts.

About the Role

You will play central part in the successful delivery of music royalties to musicians, composers, and publishers. You will drive the development, delivery, evolution, and maintenance of music royalty processing engine.

We're looking for candidates who are based in the UK, Germany or Spain (or have the right to work in these countries) to join our dynamic team. If you're passionate about product development, collaboration, and making a difference in the music industry, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the full lifecycle of our applications (analysis, design, implementation, testing, infrastructure, and operations).
• Ensuring that our deliverables are provided in a fully operational state - following the principle 'You build it - you run it'.
• Close collaboration with your peer developers, business, and product owners.
• Coaching, mentoring, and training of your colleagues.

Requirements and Qualifications (not all items are must-have):

• A strong background in the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design and Collaborative modelling.
• Experience with event-driven architectures / Apache Kafka.
• Experience with large-scale system handling terabytes of data and tens of thousands of messages per second.
• Experience working with relational (Oracle, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, Cassandra, ElasticSearch) databases.
• Experience with monolith-to-microservices migrations and patterns such as strangler and change-data-capture.
• Proficient with JVM and JVM based languages such as Java and Scala
• Building applications on the AWS / ECS using DevOps principles and CI/CD
• Test Driven Development, Version Control
• You like music :)

What we offer:

• Competitive local benefits based on your location
• We promote flexible working regarding time and/or place
• Both mental and physical health initiatives
• Corporate pension scheme
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities
• Industry insider events, team socials and company events
• Enhanced holiday allowance

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and any other protected characteristic.
We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please speak to our recruitment team and we will work with you to make reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout your application.