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About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• Seeking 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience implementing distributed systems.
• Experience building frontend applications using TypeScript and React.
• Experience with various database technologies and query languages (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.
• Experience working within Agile development teams.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence engineering and business stakeholders.
• Passion for solving complex technical problems and mentoring engineers.
• Deep understanding of software architecture, domain modeling, and scalable system design.
• Experience designing data models and optimizing schemas for complex business domains.
• Experience working with large datasets and high-volume systems.
• Can mobilize engineering teams around a technical vision and lead execution across multiple initiatives.
• Establishes engineering best practices, coding standards, and development processes that improve quality and delivery.
• Strong systems-thinking mindset with the ability to balance immediate business needs against long-term platform investments.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives without direct people management responsibility.
• Passionate about mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Interest in music, technology, and building systems that directly support artists and creators.
• Applicants must be at least 18 years of age.

Skills

• Python
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• React
• Snowflake
• MySQL
• Neo4j
• Kafka
• OpenSearch
• REST
• HTTP
• OAuth
• AWS
• Agile

Location

• London

Work Type

• Onsite

Experience Level

• 10+ years

Benefits

• Private medical cover
• Generous pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Music industry perks
• Time off over winter break

About the Company

• Sony Music Entertainment fuels the creative journey and has played a pioneering role in music history.
• Sony Music works in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators.
• Sony Music operates at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, embracing new business models and employing breakthrough tools.
• Sony Music is 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 powers all of Sony Music's most critical business capabilities.

Equal Opportunity

• As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive.
• Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.
• We employ, retain, promote and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence and talent.
• We apply this policy without regard to any individual’s sex, race, religion, origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition or disability.