Senior Full Stack Engineer

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.

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.

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Universal Music Group