Senior Software Engineer - Tallinn, Estonia Office

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.

We’re hiring for the Fan Engagement & Audience Development area as part of our Product, Design, Engineering & Global Operations (PDEGO) software suite and global technology team. You will be working on a product that helps Sony Music artists quickly generate easy to customize websites and link-in-bio solutions that can centralize content marketing online and drive fan engagement. Further details will be shared in the recruiter interview and scheduled PDEGO team interviews.

• →Build products that empower artists and record labels across the globe
• →Contribute to all tiers of our architecture to produce high quality, robust user experiences
• →Write clean, tested and maintainable code
• →Work closely with product management to understand and implement client requirements
• →Design, communicate and execute a vision in collaboration with your team and other teams across the technology organization
• →Participate in re-architecture, refinement and technical design of various systems
• →Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning

• We’re seeking 8-10+ years experience with modern, web browser application development
  ○ Typescript, React and javascript so able to code review & guide development
  ○ Familiar with low-latency techniques to help us improve page load time and reliability.
  ○ Fully conversant with testing frameworks.
• Familiar with n-tier application architecture
  ○ An expert working experience with microservices and communication over HTTP, including relevant standards such as REST, HTTP, and OAuth
  ○ Deep understanding where caching techniques can bring latency and reliability improvements.
  ○ Extensive Node.js experience.
  ○ Knowledgeable about pipeline deployments and CI environments.
• Strong Knowledge with AWS Cloud technologies
• A leader with application security best practices
• Experience with working with different data stores
  ○ RDS, Snowflake and graph databases
  ○ A positive innovator for where our data models can be improved to decrease latency, save on resources and improve reliability.
• Comfortability working with cross-functional teams:
  ○ Prior experience of mentoring / training would be advantageous.
  ○ Ability to persuade and influence peers and stakeholders

• 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