Lead Senior Associate | Fullstack Java | Bengaluru | Engineering as a Service/ Operate

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will architect and deliver resilient, scalable systems across our music supply chain applications.

This role blends hands-on technical leadership with strategic influence—transforming business requirements into innovative solutions that support music supply chain platform and data integrations.

This position might be right for you if:

• You’re a curious, efficient, and hands-on engineer who enjoys shaping the direction of development and collaborating with some of the brightest minds in the organization.

• You thrive in an agile, collaborative environment where teamwork, continuous improvement, and innovation are valued. In this role, you’ll work within the Music Integration Workstream, focusing on data streams and integrations between our music metadata repertoire system and various upstream and downstream applications. You’ll collaborate closely with multiple internal and external teams to design, implement, and maintain robust data integration capabilities that ensure accuracy, scalability, and efficiency across the music supply chain. MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Technical Expertise: Possesses comprehensive knowledge of technologies and leads architectural design and implementation of large projects. Fixes critical bugs and drives technical excellence across teams. Creates and reviews complex solutions and ensures alignment with organizational standards. Influence and Leadership: Mentors senior engineers and facilitates collaboration across teams. Influences and drives cross functional team collaboration with teams like PM, QA, Design. Mediates disagreements and drives alignment among stakeholders. Builds relationships within engineering and with cross functional partners and encourages knowledge sharing. Leadership is both technical and interpersonal, shaping team culture and performance. Ownership & Scope: Owns and leads development projects with multiple components and teams. Sets architectural direction and ensures scalability and maintainability. Decisions significantly influence project and team outcomes. Scope includes large-scale solutions and strategic planning. Impact: Broadly influences product and project success across teams. Contributions are measured by achievement of customer and operational objectives and OKRs. Work has material impact on business outcomes. Regularly drives innovation and technical strategy. REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 7+ years of experience in a software engineering role, with a strong track record of designing, developing, and delivering production-grade applications.

• Proficiency in Java and JVM-based languages, with extensive experience using Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Integration, and related Spring frameworks.

• Comprehensive understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including continuous integration, automated testing (unit, integration, functional), code reviews, and documentation.

• Strong experience with event-driven architectures (EDA) and publish/subscribe messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS.

• Expertise in relational databases, including SQL, database schema design, stored procedures, query optimization, and data modeling.

• Hands-on experience with API design and integration, including RESTful and event-based interfaces.

• Working knowledge of authentication and authorization protocols, including OAuth 2.0 and related access management patterns.

• Experience with AWS cloud services, such as S3, RDS, VPC, and messaging or streaming services.

• Familiarity with distributed caching solutions and their application in highperformance systems.

• Experience with enterprise and data integration concepts, tools, and best practices.

• Experience monitoring and maintaining applications using modern observability tools and practices.

• Strong grasp of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms and their practical application in complex systems.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and disciplines.

• Strong time management and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on breaking down complex challenges into actionable steps.

• Experience working in Agile environments, contributing to iterative development and continuous improvement.