Luminate: Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Are you an entertainment news junkie? Do you thrill your friends with tales torn from famous and obscure sources about artists and performers of every ilk? Are you a bit of a data-head who’s a little obsessed with entertainment charts, ranks, lists and stats? Do you knowingly smile to yourself as you watch a story’s blow-up path, from the feeds to the web to TV, all fueled by the public’s fascination with all things entertainment? And do you have an eye for fact-based stories and an understanding of the role data plays in their telling? If so, we'd like to talk! Luminate is the preeminent entertainment data and insights company, unlocking access to the most essential, objective, and trustworthy data compiled from thousands of verified data sources. The beneficiary of industry consolidation, Luminate now houses what was once Nielsen Music, BDS Radio, SoundScan, Music Connect, Alpha Data and Variety Business Intelligence. Luminate is looking for experienced Senior Software Engineers to join our team. We have a deep bench of domain expertise, what we want from you is a passion for distributed systems engineering with an aptitude for learning and practicing collaborative, iterative, software development with a small but growing team. We’re maintaining and building out our SaaS platform for the music, film and TV industries. We’re supporting our data science team to empower them to do what they do best. You'll need strong communication skills, technical fluency, empathy, humility, and an appreciation for where the entertainment industries have been and where we hope to take them. You will work with a team of product managers, designers, data scientists and your fellow engineers to deliver a high-quality software platform that brings value to our clients. Our overall mission is to take the foundations of technology that underpin our work in the music business and expand that out to new forms of media and new types of customers.
Requirements
- An exceptional foundation of computer science fundamentals
- A strong command of SQL
- Python with dbt or other robust data pipeline frameworks and tools (Pyspark, pandas etc).
- CI/CD experience, ideally with low/no-downtime deployments for a SaaS product (safe data migrations etc)
- Best practices for development with public cloud environments, preferably AWS
- Experience with Snowflake or other big data warehousing systems.
Nice To Haves
- Data analytics or warehousing experience in an environment with demanding customers or regulatory requirements
- Data ingestion and query optimization best practices
- Domain knowledge of any entertainment industry’s data modeling or business operations
- Experiences with the challenges of testing data analytics products and the underlying data sets that power them.
Responsibilities
- Working with your team to deliver on our product roadmap utilizing modern software development practices.
- Developing not just the code, but all other parts of the stack for the work: tests, infrastructure, etc. We’re a small team and we want to develop competencies across the entire stack for the mutual benefit of the whole team.
- Helping advise and educate on engineering best practices and participating in design and architecture discussions to help make sure our work stays aligned with business objectives.
- Managing risk and uncertainty while moving forward with the business as we bring our platform to new markets and audiences.
- Contributing back to our nascent engineering practice in ways that best demonstrate your own unique strengths
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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