Senior Software Engineer - Technical Lead

Warner Music Inc. • Toronto • 1m ago

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.

• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

Technology is one of the most important parts of our business. Whether it’s signing up new artists; ensuring we provide the right data to Spotify, YouTube, and other digital service providers; or helping artists use the latest AI tools and make thoughtful decisions with data-driven insights – technology plays an invaluable role in our success. The engineering team at Warner Music Group makes all of it a reality.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Your Role:

The role will work closely with a major music publishing division within Warner Music Group. This publishing division represents one of the highest growing segments at WMG, consistently growing double digits and now representing 20% of WMG’s entire revenue.

We need a strong leader to be the Senior Software Engineer - Technical Lead for our royalty processing system. This entity processes over $1B in royalties every year, ensuring that every rights owner on a composition is paid exactly their share in a timely fashion. If you love music, data, and building world-class systems that scale, this role might be right for you.

Responsibilities:

Implement maintainable solutions with high quality and reliability that can scale as our business continues to grow and expand.
Work with the team and leaders to identify new opportunities to improve the quality, scale, and efficiency of our systems.
Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and other eng teams, clarifying technical requirements and providing support for system integrations and data engineering.
Have end-to-end ownership of team deliverables, processes and execution, ensuring the team reliably delivers on their technical objectives.
Provide mentorship to other engineers, fostering their professional growth and success
Respond to incidents and perform on-call duties with an eye towards root cause fixes and improvements

About you:

You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related field
You are hands on leader who writes code, conducts code reviews, and participates in setting engineering best practices
You are an empathetic leader with experience in a technical leadership role, leading engineers through complex projects.
You are an effective communicator who collaborates well cross-functionally
You have at least 6 years of Java backend software development experience
You have strong experience with relational databases and data model design
You have experience in building projects with good abstractions and clean architecture
You have strong debugging skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues
You have a drive to grow, learn, and master the craft of software development
Our tech stack is built on top of AWS. Experience in this tech stack is a plus although not mandatory
Bonus points for experience with design, develop, and maintain large-scale data processing systems utilizing tools such as hadoop, apache spark, kafka
You have a high sense of ownership and a drive to deliver impact in a fast-paced, evolving, ambiguous environment

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.