Senior Software Engineer
sonymusicentertainment · Europe, London
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Job description
About Sony Music Entertainment
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 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.
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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
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. Privacy Policy Please click here to read our privacy policy before beginning the application process as you will need to agree to the terms of the policy before submitting your information.
Please note that applicants must be at least 18 years of age.
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