Sobre este puesto de Senior Full Stack Engineer en Universal Music Group
Music is Universal
It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.
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Department
With a global footprint, the Universal Music Group Rights Product & Services Team designs, develops, delivers, maintains & supports technical solutions which enable the capture and maintenance of contracts relating to repertoire delivery and the assignment of repertoire delivered under those contracts.
The team continuously collaborates with our international business teams to deliver innovative solutions as well as supporting best practices and new processes for a better ‘rights’ experience.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer with a strong background in modern .NET and React who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges and influencing technical direction.
This is a senior individual contributor role within our Rights engineering team. Alongside designing and delivering high-quality software, you'll work closely with the Technical Lead to shape technical decisions, mentor other engineers and help drive engineering excellence across the team.
You'll be trusted to lead technical discussions, make architectural decisions where appropriate and act as a technical point of contact when the Technical Lead is unavailable.
We're looking for someone who is comfortable navigating complex legacy systems while helping evolve our platform towards modern cloud-native architectures.
This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys combining hands-on software development with technical leadership. You'll have the opportunity to influence architecture, mentor others, contribute to engineering strategy and play a key role in the evolution of a globally used Rights platform supporting one of the world's largest music companies.
Key Responsibilities
Extensive commercial experience developing applications using modern .NET (C#) and React.
Demonstrable experience designing and delivering scalable, secure and maintainable distributed applications and APIs.
Experience contributing to technical architecture and making pragmatic engineering decisions that balance quality, delivery and long-term maintainability.
Comfortable leading technical discussions, influencing engineering direction and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.
Experience mentoring engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing and technical guidance.
Act as deputy for the Technical Lead when required, supporting planning, technical decision-making and delivery.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Comfortable working in complex business domains, quickly understanding existing systems and identifying opportunities for improvement.
Takes ownership of technical delivery, proactively identifies risks and drives solutions through to completion.
Skills and Experience Required
Minimum 5 years’ web/application development experience
Demonstrable web development experience (experience in media/entertainment industry is a plus)
Expert-level C# and modern .NET development
Strong React, TypeScript and JavaScript experience
REST API and microservice development
AWS cloud services
Relational SQL databases and NoSQL databases such as Postgres or MongoDB
Containerisation (Docker, ECS/Kubernetes)
CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar)
TDD and automated testing
Message-based systems (SNS/SQS or equivalent)
Debugging production systems using telemetry and monitoring tools
Desirable
Practical experience integrating AI coding assistants and agentic workflows into day-to-day engineering (code generation, test writing, refactoring legacy code, documentation)
Familiarity with other data stores, including cloud-based managed offerings
AWS Cloud (or similar e.g. Azure)
Experience in building React components based around Bootstrap
Bachelor’s in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent demonstrable experience
Experience in an agile environment (Scrum and/or Kanban)
About UMG UK
We are Universal Music Group UK – the UK’s leading music-based entertainment company. We exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. We help UK artists produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to inspire and entertain fans at home and around the world.
Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits
Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
Private Medical Insurance
25 paid days of annual leave
Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
Holiday Purchase scheme
Dental and Travel Insurance options
Cycle to Work Scheme
Salary Sacrifice Cars
Subsidised Gym Membership
Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)
Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.
