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Senior Software Engineer
Company | Sony Music Entertainment |
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Location | New York, NY, USA |
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Salary | $160000 – $190000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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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