Senior Software Engineer

About The Job:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help maintain, modernize, and innovate the core engineering applications that powers our entire music publishing business lifecycle—from rights management and contract administration to complex royalty processing and global licensing management.
If you love music, thrive on solving complex business issues and scale challenges, and are passionate about building mission-critical systems that songwriters and rightsholders rely on, this role is for you.

Your Role:

- Reimagine and implement the future of tech for the music industry

- Work as part of a dynamic and highly effective team

- Own the creation and delivery of highly innovative products

- Learn and grow as a professional through close collaboration with your team members and engineering leaders, and by being part of a culture of continuous improvement and learning

Here you’ll get to:

- 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 senior engineer who writes code, conducts code reviews, and participates in setting engineering best practices

- You are an effective communicator who collaborates well cross-functionally

- You have 6+ years of experience working in Java or another object-oriented language, with strong full-stack 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

- You have experience writing design docs for your features, and serve as design reviewer for design docs of your peers

We’d love it if you also had:

- Experience with AWS

- Familiarity with large-scale data processing systems and event driven architectures is a bonus.

- 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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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.
 
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Compensation: This position offers a base salary of $100,000 - $145,000 CAD. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for a performance based annual bonus.
 
Vacancy Status: This posting is for an active, existing vacancy.