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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 & Global Operations (PDEGO) team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our engineering team in our London office. Our PDEGO suite powers all of Sony Music's most critical business capabilities—ensuring monetization, data and analytics depth, marketing and music release at scale for artists across the globe. As a technical lead, you'll help shape the architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technical direction of one of our product spaces at global scale. You'll work closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to modernize systems while mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across the team. What you'll do: • Lead the technical design and implementation of scalable software solutions supporting Sony Music's critical global B2B2C platforms. • Drive architecture decisions across distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, and platform services. • Partner closely with Product, Operations, and teams of stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions. • Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code while establishing engineering best practices across the team • Lead technical design sessions, architecture reviews, and modernization initiatives • Design resilient services and integrations with internal and third-party platforms • Champion application reliability, performance, observability, and operational excellence • Mentor engineers through technical coaching, code reviews, and architectural guidance • Identify technical debt and lead initiatives to improve scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity • Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root cause analysis across distributed systems • Collaborate with engineering leadership to define the long-term technical roadmap for the platform you are focused on Who you are: Seeking 10+ years of software engineering experience in the following areas: • Experience implementing distributed systems • Strong experience with Python and JavaScript • Experience building frontend applications using TypeScript and React • Experience with various database technologies and query languages (we use Snowflake, MySQL, Neo4j, Kafka, OpenSearch, and more) • Experience designing microservices and APIs using REST, HTTP, and OAuth • Comfortable with AWS cloud technologies • Experience using log analysis and monitoring tools to investigate production issues and improve reliability • Experience writing unit, integration, and automated tests • Ex

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