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 know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter.
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.
About Songkick
Songkick is a part of Warner Music Group that been providing concert information and recommendations to music fans globally for more than 15 years. Based in London with global event coverage and over 20 million registered music fans, Songkick is well positioned to extend its fan and artist offerings. We’re dedicated to making sure you never miss your favourite artist live by building applications to help understand what’s happening in the live music industry, allowing fans to engage with artists in meaningful ways, and allowing artists to engage with their fans.
About the job
We are building the next-generation of Songkick to provide new and exciting fan and artist interactions building on the current Songkick fan and artist userbase. Critical to our mission is ensuring the accuracy and comprehensiveness of our concert data, enabling the platform to really scale and providing new moments of engagement. We are reimagining what Songkick can be including:
- How we represent the relationships between artists & fans, labels, promoters, managers, and in the context of the live experience to power next-generation interactions, search and discovery for artists and fans
- How we store, represent, ingest and serve data about events artists, fans, and their connections
- How we provide best in class privacy and security within an open platform and serve data about live events from global partners to small & unique and specialist events globally
The Songkick Platform extends and modernises Songkick today to be the foundation of live music fan to fan and fan to artist interactions, connecting and growing artist fan bases & supporting artists and fans in the live music space. You will be driving the evolution to support extending the scope and scale of Songkick.
We are looking for a music loving, backend engineer, who is excited about music, apis, building and scaling world-class systems to engage other music lovers globally.
About us:
As the home to 300 Elektra, Asylum, Atlantic, 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 catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide. We’re the home to WMX – the next generation services division that connects artists with fans and amplifies brands in creative, immersive, and engaging ways – and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) – the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels.
Together, we are Warner Music Group: Music With Vision & Voice.
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.
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