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.
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com.
Key Responsibilities
Work closely with the Technical Team Lead and Senior Developers within your team and respond to their guidance and support
Attend and contribute to sprint ceremonies including planning sessions, stand-ups and retrospectives
Understand UMG’s complex business domain and be comfortable with the existing code-based solutions
Ensure that the acceptance criteria of user stories are met and failures in QA are limited
Produce high quality code using Test Driven Development
Embrace exposure to new architectures, cloud-based infrastructures, microservices and modern ways of working
Be able to diagnose issues via debugging, logging and telemetry with tools like Dynatrace
Must be able to be self-learn and be motivated to understand code written by others
Ability/willingness to work with a remote team with minimal cross-over
Able to work with business users to identify and resolve production issues
Skills and Experience Required
Top Skills
Technical: Modern .NET, React.js, Familiarity with AWS Services, Postgres/SQL databases
Personal: Easy to work with, Sense of Ownership, Good communication skills
Essential
Excellent professional experience of C#, and the modern .Net ecosystem
Professional experience with React and test frameworks such as Jest
Experience using containerised systems, with some experience with ECS or Kubernetes
Experience in writing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Tekton, or similar
Professional experience using JavaScript and TypeScript
Experience with message-based architecture (SNS/SQS or similar)
An understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, Postgres and JSON data type preferred
Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development
A good understanding of design patterns and principles e.g. SOLID and GO4 (desirable)
Experience working in an Agile based project delivery environment
Ability to refactor code
Ability to work in a complex and fast-moving domain
Desirable
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
Demonstrable web development experience (experience in media/entertainment industry is a plus)
Experience in an agile environment (Scrum and/or Kanban)
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.
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans.
Universal Music Group's labels include A&M Records, Astralwerks, Blue Note Records, Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Nashville, Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, EMI Records Nashville, Fonovisa, Geffen Records, Harvest, Interscope Records, Island Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Universal Music Latino, Verve Label Group, Virgin Records, Virgin EMI Records, as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.).
UMG also includes Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the industry's premier music publishing operations worldwide and Bravado, the leading provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists and entertainment brands around the world. Universal Music Group is a Vivendi company.
Find out more at: http://www.universalmusic.com.
View our current career opportunities at: http://www.umusiccareers.com
