Senior Developer – Java Microservices AWS – Music Tech company

Java, AWS, Microservices, Scala, Senior Engineer, Principal Engineer, Technical Lead

They are disrupting the music industry and solving its biggest challenges in the digital streaming age. Kobalt is a revolutionary tech company that helps musicians collect their royalties. Their platform directly collects, processes and accounts for billions of micro-transactions that ensures faster, more accurate payments as well as helping smaller emerging artists break into the music scene in a way that’s supportive and transparent. They are hiring for a number positions as they are scaling up their platform to handle the biggest challenge in the digital age of music and are looking for several Tech Leads, Principal Engineers and Senior Software Engineers.

At Kobalt, we are building the leading centralized global technology platform to best service a fast-growing digital music industry. This is an opportunity to influence the entire behaviour of a global industry going through hyper-growth, transforming and disrupting a very complex marketplace. The core mission is to create a fair and transparent industry for creators (songwriters/musicians/artists), working with microservices architecture, developing and operating highly scalable data-centric services and web applications having a real impact on the future of music.

It’s a Greenfield project to rebuild an entire platform at large scale implementing a microservices architecture and highly distributed systems servicing trillions of transactions to revolutionise the music industry introducing all the latest cutting-edge technology. They are disrupting a market and influencing the entire behaviour of a global industry to impact positive change through ground breaking projects at early stage influence technology decisions.

At Kobalt Engineers wear many hats. They’re change agents, using their passion to proactively and decisively helping improve our processes, practices, infrastructure, architecture and services.

They’re experts with deep technical knowledge and extraordinary problem solving skills, which they use to influence and support the business in decision making and in coming up with innovative solutions to new problems. They’re mentors and inspirational figures to engineers that thrive on learning and development. They use their clear vision and industry knowledge to contribute to Technology and Product roadmaps. They own the technology strategy and communicate it clearly to the rest of the organisation.

They do all of this and somehow still manage to have great impact as individual contributors of code, frameworks and tools.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO US

• Leadership and extraordinary problem solving skills to constantly improve our platforms and spearhead technological innovation
• Appreciation for software design, simplicity, scalability, re-usability and reliability
• Breadth of experience coupled with strong computer science and engineering fundamentals, enabling you to navigate, extend and re-invent complex systems
• Passion for metrics and data-driven decision making
• Relentless desire to improve continuously
• Drive to set the engineering culture and to contribute to hiring great engineers
• Deep understanding of Data, including its collection, governance and processing at scale (e.g. using tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Storm or Kafka)
• Contributions to the technology community through open source, publications, speaking or university lecturing.

WHAT YOU WILL GET IN RETURN

• The autonomy to have tremendous impact in shaping the strategy and the future of a global, leading multi-rights platform, handling billions of transactions.
• The opportunity to work alongside incredibly creative people across the entire business, and to have an impact on the lives of creators all over the world
• The freedom to work on projects outside your immediate area of focus
• The chance to mentor and develop others eager to learn, making use of your extensive experience and deep domain knowledge
• An environment where learning and development is encouraged and expected, with access to Udemy, BookBoon and more
• Regular Tech Meetups hosted in the office on a range of topics from Scala to Agile Leadership
• Wellbeing – we care about your physical and mental health and offer you subsidised gym memberships, a cycle to work scheme, sports clubs, office yoga and (almost) daily meditation classes
• A great office with everything you need to do your job and enjoy your place of work including fresh fruit and cereal, fantastic open space on our roof and shower facilities
• Our infamous Kobalt Socials including quarterly-company wide rooftop parties and regular team socials, beers/wine/soft drinks on a Friday and the odd famous person doing a gig in our kitchen
• A great salary in addition to a generous pension scheme (up to 5% matched)
• Peace of mind – we offer comprehensive health cover

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