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Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

CompanySony Music Entertainment
LocationNew York, NY, USA
Salary$160000 – $190000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Experience implementing distributed systems
  • Experience in a scripting language (we use Python and JavaScript)
  • Experience building frontend applications (we use TypeScript, React, and GraphQL)
  • Experience with various database technologies and query languages (we use Neo4j, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, and more)
  • Familiar with low-latency techniques to help improve page load time and reliability
  • Experience with microservices, APIs, and related standards such as REST, HTTP, and OAuth
  • Comfortable with AWS Cloud technologies
  • Experience using log analysis to investigate bugs and performance issues
  • Experience writing unit and integration tests
  • Experience working in an agile team

Responsibilities

  • Work with a cross-functional team to 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, maintainable code
  • Work closely with product management to understand 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

Preferred Qualifications

  • Can mobilize teams around a vision and help lead execution of that vision
  • Experience with data modeling and schema design of real world use cases
  • Defines best practices and standards within the team and helps build tooling to make those easy to follow
  • Proactive problem solving
  • Experience optimizing tables, schemas and data structures
  • Ability to determine sensible KPIs and optimize against them