Senior Software Engineer

3 days ago

Tallinn, Estonia or London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

Build and enhance scalable applications supporting Sony Music’s global products and platforms.
Design, develop, maintain, and test software across the full application stack.
Translate complex business requirements into reliable technical solutions with product managers and business stakeholders.
Participate in architecture discussions, technical design, and platform modernization initiatives.
Design APIs and services integrating with internal systems and third-party platforms.
Improve application performance, observability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
Establish engineering best practices and improve development processes with engineering leadership.
Troubleshoot production issues using logs, monitoring, and root-cause analysis.

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 with TypeScript and React.
Experience with databases and query technologies such as MySQL, Snowflake, Neo4j, Kafka, or OpenSearch.
Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with HTTP and OAuth standards.
Comfort working in AWS cloud environments.
Experience writing unit, integration, and automated tests.
Experience investigating production issues through logging, monitoring, and performance analysis.
Experience in Agile development environments and strong cross-functional communication skills.
Preferred experience with financial, accounting, ERP, payments, e-commerce, content, data, or other complex data-intensive systems.
Preferred experience with complex domain modeling, schema design, relational databases, application and query optimization, large-scale data processing, developer tooling, technical documentation, mentoring, and leading technical initiatives without direct people-management responsibility.

Hybrid London work arrangement with three days in the office and two days remote.
Professional growth and development opportunities.
Private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and income protection.
Music industry perks and time off over winter break.
Modern office environment and opportunities to contribute to social impact, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

10,000+ employees