Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Remote Working

Last.fm (Part of Paramount Global) tracks users listening habits on hundreds of streaming platforms and provides in-depth insights about their listening, identifies top tracks and artists, rates how mainstream they are and then uses that data to make hyper-personalised music recommendations. For over 15 years we have been the worlds premier music recommendation engine powering listening for both our users and our partners alike. Our deep global knowledge of music extends from the top 100 to the most obscure bands in the world, all from our London HQ.

Last.fm - Your Music Counts.

Remote working available - approx. 1 day in the office a fortnight

Is this the role for you?
• You'll be joining 10 talented developers on the Last.fm software engineering team, which is responsible for building and maintaining the Last.fm website and all of the services and jobs which power it.
• You will be responsible for crafting, building and maintaining reliable systems at web scale to manipulate and derive insights from our large, unique music listening datasets
• You will use Spark, Dataproc and other technologies to apply insights about music gathered from a variety of sources, including data gathered from our users, to help us improve our platform
• Using Java and some Python, you will help us to build and maintain a variety of services which underpin Last.fm's website, API, apps and Scrobbling infrastructure.
• You will work closely with other developers and product managers and be encouraged to influence the development of the product by providing input into the architecture of the software and our data pipelines we build.
• You will be responsible for helping to maintain a development path that keeps us true to our principles and ensuring we scope, define and deliver a product which provides a dependable and consistently good experience for end-users and partners.
• You will apply your own experience from past roles in areas such as data generation to help us develop techniques and methods which improve the quality of these systems.

What will you be doing?
• Improving foundational technologies such as our huge music catalogue and catalogue of users' music listening histories
• Identifying and correlating the many variations of songs and albums so that they contribute to a unified, coherent, stable and reliable dataset
• Identifying new ways to infer correlations between messy user generated content and the ordered, structured catalogue of music that exists in the world
• Identifying hidden trends in our data such as up-and-coming artists or genres
• Rolling out new data insights and visualisations for personalised listening reports
• Developing new technology solutions to enable users to delve into their listening history
• Real-time listening and trending stats for artists and individual tracks

What are we looking for?
• 7+ years of experience with Java, working in an Agile team
• Experience with software engineering best practices (Git, CI/CD, Unit Testing)
• Experience of designing solutions with distributed systems
• Computer Science degree level knowledge of Algorithms and/or Data Structures.
Optional skills and experience:

You may also have:
• Knowledge and prior experience with Python
• Experience with any of the following: Hadoop, Docker, Redis, PostgreSQL, Pub/Sub,
• Kafka, Cassandra, Scala, Maven, Bash
• Experience with techniques such as Collaborative Filtering, Cosine Similarity or Machine Learning and other data science techniques
• Worked with AWS or Google Cloud

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Our Values:
Our values are intertwined and work together to drive the business outcomes we seek, and once combined we believe these will power our company forward.
• Optimism & Determination | We share a positive belief that we can navigate and thrive in the landscape ahead
• Inclusivity & Collaboration | We embrace new and diverse voices, act with care and work together to capture opportunities and manager through challenges
• Agility & Adaptability | We think entrepreneurially, are resilient in change and move quickly to anticipate and create what's next

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer.

At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and we take our responsibility in safeguarding children and adults seriously. We work hard to ensure that everyone with whom we engage receive equal protection from all types of harm or abuse, regardless of age, disability, gender, racial heritage, religious belief, sexual orientation or identity; an obligation we take very seriously.

To ensure, we are an exemplar in the field of safeguarding individuals, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria of the role applied for and for those who are successful in receiving an offer for roles that interact with children, completed background checks will be required prior to joining.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb873x-18-191-240-243-42 in your application.