Lead Developer, Universal Music Group

• Strong commercial experience with .NET Core / ASP.NET Core for backend development
• Proven experience building solutions on AWS, ideally including serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with Kafka (preferably AWS MSK) for messaging/stream processing
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration
• Good understanding of DevOps concepts, with practical experience using Git and working with CI/CD tooling (e.g. GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI or similar)
• Experience with both SQL (e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB)
• Comfortable working in an agile environment (Scrum/Kanban)
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and a collaborative mindset
• The Lead Developer will demonstrate strong leadership across the full project lifecycle, communicating effectively with stakeholder. The Lead Developer will guide and mentor the development team, ensuring high engineering standards and fostering a productive, collaborative environment

Desirable

• The Lead Developer will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining backend services using .NET Core / ASP.NET Core on AWS, with a strong focus on serverless architectures and event-driven systems using Kafka / AWS MSK. The Lead Developer will also work with containerised workloads on Kubernetes, and have exposure to modern DevOps and CI/CD practices
• The Lead Developer will be part of an agile product team, collaborating closely with product owners, business analysts, engineers, architects, QAs and DevOps to deliver secure, performant and reliable solutions
• Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs using .NET Core / ASP.NET Core
• Develop and support AWS serverless solutions (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3)
• Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka (preferably on AWS MSK) for high-throughput, near real-time processing
• Work with Docker and Kubernetes to build, deploy and run containerised services
• Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, secure and resilient cloud architectures
• Work with DevOps engineers to enhance CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and deployment processes
• Model and optimise data across SQL and NoSQL stores
• Providing technical leadership and direction for the Royalty development team
• Orchestrate development by leading a development team
• Establish and enforce development guidelines
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions and agile ceremonies
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve monitoring, logging and alerting across services
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver high-quality solutions on time
• Build positive relationships with business stakeholders and rest of development teams