Senior Software Engineer

London

Engineering – Software Engineering /

Full-Time /

Hybrid

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

The Songkick Platform extends and modernises Songkick today to be the foundation of live music fan to fan and fan to artist interactions, connecting and growing artist fan bases & supporting artists and fans in the live music space. You will be driving the evolution to support extending the scope and scale of Songkick.

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

Responsibilities:

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

About you:

You have an undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or other related field
You have 5+ 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

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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