Full Stack Tech Lead, Kobalt Music
Royalties
Music services company of tomorrow
Job no longer available
Music services company of tomorrow
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To improve the future of music by combining music services and technology empowering artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels with innovative technology, transparency, flexibility, ownership, and control.
Role
Who you are
- You will be passionate about making great technological choices, solving problems and supporting your team in meeting their full potential
- You will be pragmatic about technologies and have a natural curiosity
What the job involves
- As a Tech Lead at Kobalt Music, you will work alongside a peer group of senior technologists and business leaders on a mission to change how musicians and artists are represented in the music industry
- Working closely with the Engineering Manager, you will support building a diverse, highly efficient and highly-skilled engineering team aligned to Kobalt’s core business units
- This is a unique opportunity to provide technological leadership to the team while helping shape the core architecture of a rapidly scaling organisation and have a tangible impact on the future of music
- About the royalties area: for the past few years we’ve been modernising and scaling royalty processing & reporting at Kobalt
- This is an area that deals with large amounts of data and faces engineering challenges constantly
- This role sits in the Royalty Management Application team, which develops and maintains the new interface(s) that will replace our legacy systems as the day-to-day tooling for our business
- This is a major step in our migration from a legacy platform to modern, usable and well-designed systems that set our business up for another 20 years of success
- Leading technical design and decisions at the team/project level
- Driving excellence in testing, observability, maintainability, debugging and monitoring across the team
- Working closely with the wider engineering leadership to ensure security is a first-class citizen
- Handling risk, change and uncertainty, communicating blockers and delays before they need escalation
- Weighing cost and value to ensure we take the most economical decision. Fostering a culture of economic thinking
- Identify work/process efficiencies
- Customer-first mindset and obsessed with building and maintaining trust with both internal and external customers
- Ability to share expertise and promote diversity while navigating a complex organisation
- Facilitate teams and functional alignment to improve workflow and collaboration
- What does success look like:
- You will be partnering with engineering manager, product manager and delivery manager counterparts to articulate and deliver a technical roadmap that meets current needs but supports us to scale & grow for the future
- You will lead the team in building highly performant, scalable and cost-effective products and features
- You will demonstrate what it means to be an excellent software engineer; being an example for junior team members and mentoring them to grow their skills
- You’ll be responsible for day-to-day operational excellence, including dealing with incidents & outages and ensuring the team can be reactive as well as proactive when incidents arise
- You’ll be proactive in exploring and implementing new technologies and ways of working to ensure we’re staying current and innovating
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Kobalt manages the reporting and collection of digital music royalties for over 30,000 songwriters, 700,000 songs, and 500 publishing companies worldwide including Roddy Ricch, FINNEAS, Stevie Nicks, and Paul McCartney.
It's aiming to increase trust between the music and technology industries in order to build a new infrastructure that benefits fans, creators, rights owners and DSPs.
The transition from purchasing to streaming in the music world has added complexity to how royalties are distributed and collected while also increasing the size of the music industry in terms of the revenue it generates. Kobalt benefits from both of those trends.
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2019
$92.3m
LATE VC
Oct 2017
$14m
SERIES D
Total funding: $461.2m
Company benefits
- Global Corporate Discounts
- Family friendly benefits
- Learning Opportunities
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Put creators first
- Be transparent
- Thrive on creativity
- Keep it simple
- Be a good partner
- Champion diversity
- Embrace technology
- Educate everyone
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Additional info
- Kobalt represents on average over 40% of the top 100 songs and albums in both the US and UK
- This is an established yet fast growing creator-centric company of artists and songwriters including The Chainsmokers, Kelly Clarkson, Miles Davis, Dave Grohl, Lauv, Zayn Malik, Max Martin, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Pitbull, Elvis Presley, Skrillex, Sam Smith, and many more
Founders
Willard Ahdritz
(Chairman)Previously worked as Senior Manager of L.E.K. Consulting, and was Executive Chairman of AWAL. Also founded AMRA Music.
People progressing
Joined as a Copyright Manager. Promoted to Senior Royalties Manager after 3 years
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