Senior Software Engineer

Sony Music Entertainment UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (3 days in office / 2 days

Private medical cover

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Income protection

Music industry perks

Winter break time off

Job summary

SONY Music Entertainment in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the PDEGO engineering team. You’ll help build and evolve the platforms that power some of the most critical areas of our global business and support artists, songwriters, labels, and partners around the world.

This is an opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges at scale while collaborating with product managers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional partners to modernize the systems that support the

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience implementing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
• Strong experience with Python and JavaScript.
• Experience building frontend applications using TypeScript and React.
• Experience working with databases and query technologies such as MySQL, Snowflake, Neo4j, Kafka, OpenSearch, or similar platforms.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with HTTP and OAuth standards.
• Comfortable working within AWS cloud environments.
• Experience writing unit, integration, and automated tests.
• Experience investigating production issues through logging, monitoring, and performance analysis.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams.
• Interest in learning the complexities of the systems and business processes that support the global music industry.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance scalable applications that support Sony Music's global products and platforms.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software across the full application stack.
• Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into reliable technical solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with a focus on long-term quality and system reliability.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical design, and modernization initiatives across our platforms.
• Design APIs and services that integrate with internal systems and third-party platforms.
• Help improve application performance, observability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
• Partner closely with engineering leadership to establish engineering best practices and continuously improve development processes.
• Troubleshoot production issues using logs, monitoring, and root-cause analysis to ensure platform stability.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

REST APIs

AWS

Testing

Agile

Distributed systems

MySQL

Snowflake

Neo4j

Kafka

OpenSearch

OAuth

Tools

OpenSearch

Kafka

Neo4j

Snowflake

MySQL

Job description

About Sony Music Entertainment

At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We have played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We have 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 and 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 and Global Operations (PDEGO) organization is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team in our London office. You’ll help build and evolve the platforms that power some of the most critical areas of our global business and support artists, songwriters, labels, and partners around the world.

This is an opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges at scale while working closely with product managers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional partners to modernize the systems that support the music industry.

What you'll do:

• Build and enhance scalable applications that support Sony Music's global products and platforms
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software across the full application stack
• Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into reliable technical solutions
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with a focus on long-term quality and system reliability
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical design, and modernization initiatives across our platforms
• Design APIs and services that integrate with internal systems and third-party platforms
• Help improve application performance, observability, scalability, and operational excellence
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing
• Partner closely with engineering leadership to establish engineering best practices and continuously improve development processes
• Troubleshoot production issues using logs, monitoring, and root-cause analysis to ensure platform stability

Who you are:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining complex software applications
• Experience implementing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
• Strong experience with Python and JavaScript
• Experience building frontend applications using TypeScript and React
• Experience working with databases and query technologies such as MySQL, Snowflake, Neo4j, Kafka, OpenSearch, or similar platforms
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with HTTP and OAuth standards
• Comfortable working within AWS cloud environments
• Experience writing unit, integration, and automated tests
• Experience investigating production issues through logging, monitoring, and performance analysis
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams
• Interest in learning the complexities of the systems and business processes that support the global music industry

The ideal candidate

• Experience building software for financial, accounting, ERP, payments, e-commerce, content, data, or other highly complex and data-intensive business systems
• Experience modeling complex business domains and translating business rules into scalable software solutions
• Strong understanding of data modeling, schema design, and relational databases
• Experience optimizing application performance, database queries, and large-scale data processing
• Passion for improving engineering standards, developer tooling, and technical documentation
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives without direct people-management responsibility
• Curious, collaborative, and proactive, with a continuous-improvement mindset
• Interest in music, technology, and building systems that directly support artists and creators

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
• Hybrid work environment: Our London office is designed for collaboration, offering a balanced hybrid setup (3 days in office / 2 days remote)
• 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.