Senior Software Engineer - Tallinn, Estonia Office

Sony Music Product Design Engineering and Global Operations (PDE + GO) team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our development team in our Tallinn, Estonia Office!

What you'll do:

• 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 and maintainable code
• Work closely with product management to understand and implement 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

Who you are:

• We’re seeking 8-10+ years experience with modern, web browser application development
  ○ Typescript, React and javascript so able to code review & guide development
  ○ Familiar with low-latency techniques to help us improve page load time and reliability.
  ○ Fully conversant with testing frameworks.
• Familiar with n-tier application architecture
  ○ An expert working experience with microservices and communication over HTTP, including relevant standards such as REST, HTTP, and OAuth
  ○ Deep understanding where caching techniques can bring latency and reliability improvements.
  ○ Extensive Node.js experience.
  ○ Knowledgeable about pipeline deployments and CI environments.
• Strong Knowledge with AWS Cloud technologies
• A leader with application security best practices
• Experience with working with different data stores
  ○ RDS, Snowflake and graph databases
  ○ A positive innovator for where our data models can be improved to decrease latency, save on resources and improve reliability.
• Comfortability working with cross-functional teams:
  ○ Prior experience of mentoring / training would be advantageous.
  ○ Ability to persuade and influence peers and

Our Ideal Candidate Will:
● Takes responsibility for their work before, during and after development
● Works well as part of a team, focusing on communication up and down
● Continually strives to improve user experience and code quality
● Uses initiative to proactively problem solve

What we give you:

• You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day 
• A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best 
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community 
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next 
• We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives 
• We provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks. There’s also time off over winter break 

Equal Opportunities

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.

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Please note that applicants must be at least 18 years of age.