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Software Engineer at Warner Music Group maintaining and modernizing the core systems behind its music publishing business — rights management, contract administration, royalty processing, and global licensing. Day-to-day is full-stack Java work across the full development lifecycle (design, code, test, deploy, maintain), with AWS experience preferred.

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. Check out first-hand accounts from the WMG engineering, product, design, infrastructure and data teams in our blog!
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.

About The Job:

We are looking for a 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:

  • Own features through full development lifecycle, including design, creation, test, deployment, and maintenance

  • Write clean, optimized and reusable code

  • Deliver work following established standards and best practices, such as test automation, test coverage, etc

  • Create clear, comprehensive technical design documents

  • Take advantage of mentorship from more experienced engineers, and do not shy away from mentoring more junior engineers

About you:

  • You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related field

  • You have 2 to 5 years of experience working in Java with solid full-stack experience.

  • You write maintainable code, and review code of your peers

  • You have strong operational excellence best practices: Testing, monitoring, paging, and incident management

  • You write or refactor code with maintainability and optimization in mind, improve test coverage, and have sound judgment when making design tradeoff decisions. You also contribute high-quality code reviews.

  • You have a proven track record of shipping software features to in accordance with best practices around scalability, performance, and product quality

  • Your bias is towards action, and you always find ways to deliver better solutions more efficiently

  • You’re an empathetic team member who works well in a team environment and communicates effectively

We’d love it if you also had:

  • Experience with AWS

  • Experience with writing design docs for your features, and serve as design reviewer for design docs of your peers

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.
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