Software Engineer

Luminate is the entertainment industry’s preeminent data and insights partner, serving as the single source of truth for record labels, film studios, talent agencies, and every part of the music and entertainment ecosystem. By aggregating data from over 500 verified sources, Luminate provides customers with the objective validation needed to make critical business decisions and track global market share. While its data famously fuels the Billboard Charts and the Variety Streaming Originals Charts, Luminate’s primary mission is to empower the entertainment industry with essential, accurate and objective data. We are looking for full-stack software engineers to join our team. We have a deep bench of domain expertise, what we want from you is a passion for application 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 the Customer Experience team, composed of product managers, designers, and your fellow engineers to deliver a high-quality software platform that brings value to our customers in the music industry. 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. You Will Be Responsible For: ● Working with your team to deliver on Luminate’s product roadmap utilizing modern software development practices, including cutting-edge AI development tools. ● Developing not just the code, but all other parts of the stack: test suites, infrastructure, documentation, etc. We’re a small team and we want to develop competencies across the entire stack for the mutual benefit of the whole team. ● Managing risk and uncertainty while moving forward with the business as we bring our platform to new markets and audiences. ● Contributing back to our engineering practice in ways that best demonstrate your own unique strengths. We strive for continuous improvement! ● Assembling large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements. ● Working with stakeholders including data, design, product teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues. Ideal Skills or Experience: Deep, meaningful and recent development experiences with one or more of the following is desired but not required ● 2+ years of software engineering experience ● A solid foundation of computer science fundamentals and object-oriented design principles. ● Experience in developing with Java and Spring Boot services, as well as working in React front-ends with Typescript. ● Understanding of API design and microservice architecture. ● A strong commitment to test-driven development. ● CI/CD experience, ideally with blue-green deployments for a SaaS product. ● Best practices for development with public cloud environments, preferably AWS. What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months that you will work toward completing? 1 month Onboarding into our tooling and development ecosystem. Always an opportunity for us to improve, we value constructive feedback on how to pay it forward to the next new employee. Learning about the domain of our business from your peers and incorporating that into the work you do going forward. Collaborating with your teammates across the disciplines to start delivering value to our clients! 6 months You’ve succeeded in delivering complete, but discrete parts of our platform. You start to develop expertise around the specific part of the system you’ve been working with the most and can convey your experience to your team when n ... (truncated, view full listing at source)