Engineering Manager, Pub Admin

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Sony Music Entertainment is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Pub Admin team in London, building a modern rights and royalties platform while balancing new feature work with system health in a fast moving, agile environment. You will manage a squad of full‑stack engineers, run regular 1:1s, mentor staff and contractors, and partner with Directors to shape the technical vision while ensuring product strategy aligns with business goals and ongoing platform improvements. The ideal candidate brings 7+ years in software, 2+ years in management, 5+ years building complex products, strong cross functional influence, excellent communication, and hands on experience with React or Python/JS plus testing and code review. To apply, tailor your CV to show leadership, platform scale, a genuine interest in music, quantify impact, demonstrate collaboration across teams, and confirm you meet the onsite London requirement.

At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.

Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.

Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.

Sony Music's Product Design Engineering and Global Operations (PDEGO) Team is looking for an Engineering Manager (aligning with our Accounting & Royalties + Content Teams) to build and evolve our Pub Admin product within our ever-growing team in our King’s Cross Office (London).  Pub Admin is our unified, modern rights and royalty platform - where our engineers help transform a complex domain into simple, scalable, high-performance product solutions for Sony Music’s global songwriting community.

What you'll do:

• Cultivate a high-performance agile development team balancing executing new features while maintaining our existing system health
• Manage a team of full-stack engineers to deliver internal platforms
• Hold regular 1:1s, mentor engineers, and work with contractors
• Work with Directors to drive engineering vision
• Work with product to develop solutions that align with business cases and strategy
• Constantly improve our platforms
• Experiment with new technologies and integrate them into our stack when appropriate

Who you are:

• We’re seeking an Engineering Manager with 7+ years of experience who -
• Has experience working in an agile team
• Strong organizational and analytical skills paired with the ability to drive complex projects
• Interested in music and in learning the intricacies of the music business
• Able to influence cross-functional teams and create a consensus between engineering teams
• Strong verbal, written, and visual communication skills.
• Experience with React/frontend JS is a plus
• 2+ years in an engineering management role
• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining complex software products
• 5+ years in a scripting language such as Python, PHP, JavaScript, etc
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Experience reviewing code changes

What we give you:

• You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day 
• A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best 
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community 
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next 
• We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives 
• We provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks. There’s also time off over winter break 

Equal Opportunities

As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

We employ, retain, promote and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We apply this policy without regard to any individual’s sex, race, religion, origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition or disability.

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Please note that applicants must be at least 18 years of age.