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Staff Software Engineer
Warner Music Group
London
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GBP 60,000 - 100,000
Full time
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Job summary
An innovative company seeks a passionate Staff Software Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role focuses on backend development for a leading platform in the live music industry, ensuring accurate and comprehensive data for fan engagement. You will work on exciting projects that connect artists and fans, leveraging your skills in API design and service architecture. With a commitment to continuous improvement, this position offers a chance to grow professionally while making a significant impact in the music world. If you love music and technology, this is the perfect opportunity for you!
Qualifications
- 8+ years experience in backend development or data engineering.
- Experience building large-scale customer-facing applications.
- Strong coding skills and empathetic communication.
Responsibilities
- Focus on backend development with API and service design.
- Provide leadership and mentoring for engineering teams.
- Drive test strategy and ensure security and performance.
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At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter.
Technology is one of the most important parts of our business. Whether it’s signing up new artists; ensuring we provide the right data to Spotify, YouTube, and other digital service providers; or helping artists use the latest AI tools and make thoughtful decisions with data-driven insights – technology plays an invaluable role in our success. The engineering team at Warner Music Group makes all of it a reality.
About Songkick
Songkick is a part of Warner Music Group that been providing concert information and recommendations to music fans globally for more than 15 years. Based in London with global event coverage and over 20 million registered music fans, Songkick is well positioned to extend its fan and artist offerings. We’re dedicated to making sure you never miss your favourite artist live; building applications to help understand what’s happening in the live music industry, allowing fans to engage with artists in meaningful ways, and allowing artists to engage with their fans.
About The Job
We need you to help build the next-generation of Songkick to provide new and exciting fan and artist interactions. Critical to our mission is ensuring the accuracy and comprehensiveness of our concert data, enabling the platform to really scale and providing new moments of engagement. We are reimagining what Songkick can be including:
- How we represent the relationships between artists & fans, labels, promoters, managers, and in the context of the live experience to power next-generation interactions, search and discovery for artists and fans
- How we store, represent, ingest and serve data about events artists, fans, and their connections
- How we provide best in class privacy and security within an open platform and serve data about live events from global partners to small & unique and specialist events globally
We are looking for a music loving, backend engineer, who is excited about music, apis, building and scaling world-class systems to engage other music lovers globally.
Your Role
- Reimagine and implement the future of tech for artists and fans, building new codebases and scaling services to new levels
- Work as part of a dynamic and highly effective team
- Own the creation and delivery of highly innovative products
- Learn and grow as a professional through close collaboration with your team members and engineering leaders, and by being part of culture of continuous improvement and learning
- Backend Development focus on API and service design
- Provide leadership and mentoring for all Engineering levels
- Scoping of Engineering tasks, strategy and focus
- Participate in/drive code reviews and drive engineering excellence
- Drive test strategy across services and service architecture
- Write & review documentation, including Engineering Design Documents (EDDs)
- Tech Debt: Proactively identify and tackle tech debt
- Ensure Security, Privacy and performance are first class citizens of design
- Rails, Go, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery expertise are all a plus
- You have an undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or other related field
- You have 8+ years experience in backend development or data engineering
- You have built or developed large-scale customer and business facing applications
- You are an excellent coder and empathetic communicator with great design skills
- You are passionate about music and have a deep desire to provide the data that will help bring more great music to larger audiences
- You have a high sense of ownership and a drive to deliver impact in a fast-paced, evolving, ambiguous environment
- You have a drive to grow, learn, and master the craft of software development
Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.
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Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.
WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
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