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 turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

- Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
- Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
- Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

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.

Check out first-hand accounts from the WMG engineering, product, design, infrastructure and data teams in our blog!

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.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

About The Job:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help maintain, modernize, and innovate the core engineering applications that powers our entire music publishing business lifecycle—from rights management and contract administration to complex royalty processing and global licensing management.

If you love music, thrive on solving complex business issues and scale challenges,



and are passionate about building mission-critical systems that songwriters and rightsholders rely on, this role is for you.

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Your Role:

- Reimagine and implement the future of tech for the music industry
- Work as part of a dynamic and highly effective team
- Own the creation and delivery of highly innovative products
- Learn and grow as a professional through close collaboration with your team members and engineering leaders, and by being part of a culture of continuous improvement and learning

Here you’ll get to:

- Implement maintainable solutions with high quality and reliability that can scale as our business continues to grow and expand.
- Work with the team and leaders to identify new opportunities to improve the quality, scale, and efficiency of our systems.
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and other eng teams, clarifying technical requirements and providing support for system integrations and data engineering.
- Have end-to-end ownership of team deliverables, processes and execution, ensuring the team reliably delivers on their technical objectives.
- Provide mentorship to other engineers, fostering their professional growth and success
- Respond to incidents and perform on-call duties with an eye towards root cause fixes and improvements

About you:

- You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related field
- You are hands on senior engineer who writes code, conducts code reviews, and participates in setting engineering best practices
- You are an effective communicator who collaborates well cross-functionally
- You have 6+ years of experience working in Java or another object-oriented language, with strong full-stack experience.
- You have strong experience with relational databases and data model design
- You have experience in building projects with good abstractions and clean architecture
- You have strong debugging skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues
- You have a drive to grow, learn, and master the craft of software development
- You have experience writing design docs for your features, and serve as design reviewer for design docs of your peers

We’d love it if you also had:





- Experience with AWS
- Familiarity with large-scale data processing systems and event driven architectures is a bonus.
- High sense of ownership and a drive to deliver impact in a fast-paced, evolving, ambiguous workplace

n$100,000 - $145,000 a year Compensation: This position offers a base salary of $100,000 - $145,000 CAD. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for a performance based annual bonus. Vacancy Status: This posting is for an active, existing vacancy. nAs the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, 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 catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide.

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Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

Love this job and want to apply?

Click the “Apply” link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.

Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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📌 Senior Software Engineer (British Columbia)
🏢 Warner Music Group
📍 British Columbia