Engineering Manager

About Sony Music Entertainment

At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.

Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re 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 Team (PDE) is looking for an Engineering Manager (Royalty Accounting) to build and evolve our royalty products within our ever-growing Kings Cross team.

What you'll do:

• Cultivate a high-performance agile development team balancing executing new features while maintaining our existing system health
• Manage teams of full-stack engineers to deliver royalty products
• Hold regular 1:1s, mentor engineers, and work with the recruiting team to build our teams
• Work with Directors to drive engineering vision
• Work with product to develop solutions that align with business cases and strategy
• Constantly improve our royalty calculation and payment products
• Experiment with new technologies and integrate them into our stack, when appropriate.

Who you are:

• Have experience working in an agile team
• Strong organizational and analytical skills paired with the ability to drive complex projects
• Interested in music and in learning the intricacies of the music business
• Able to influence cross-functional teams and create a consensus between engineering teams
• Strong verbal, written, and visual communication skills.
• 2+ years in an engineering management role
• 2+ years of experience with a variety of database technologies such as Neo4J, Snowflake, MySQL, ElasticSearch, etc
• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining complex software products
• 5+ years of SQL experience
• 5+ years in a scripting language such as Python, PHP, JavaScript, etc
• Experience writing unit and integration tests

What we give you:

• A competitive salary and bonus scheme.
• Free Vinyls, Gig Tickets, Live Shows within our office, and the ability to skip the queue for major UK festivals.
• An office environment built around success (Free Breathwork, Yoga, Pilates Classes), A monthly craft class (Perfume making, Pottery, Sushi rolling), Numerous pub quizzes, album launches, and single launches.
• On-site restaurant for breakfast & lunch + On-site baristas across 2 floors.
• Private Healthcare & Dental (You can add your family to this as well)
• 25 Days Standard Holiday + Bank Holidays + Our Winter Recess
• Weekly get-togethers (drinks, running clubs, football teams, fantasy football drafts, Gigs too obviously, Movie Club)
• Quarterly PDE Specific Socials (Bowling, Formula 1, Karaoke, Bingo)
• Discounts with other Sony Brands (Electronics, Movies)
• Entertainment and Food Discounts through Tastecard, NightKey, and Gourmet Society.
• Numerous opportunities to help with Sony Music's social justice fund.
• You join an inclusive, collaborative, and global community where you have the opportunity to fuel the creative journey
• A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork
• An excellent range of benefits, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and income protection, plus loads of music biz perks
• We invest in your professional growth & development

Sony Music is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.