Sr. Java Engineer (Contract)

Company

Our client collects and distributes digital performance royalties on behalf of more than 260,000 creators and to date has paid nearly $9 billion in distributions. Through innovation in music tech products and services, it distributes royalties to creator groups, advocates for fair pay across platforms, and creates systems that improve how the industry operates. Its proprietary music tech solutions help turn data into accurate revenue for creators and include Music Data Exchange (MDX) and International Standard Recording Codes (ISRC) Search.

Position

Have you ever wanted to work in a role that directly impacts the music industry? Are you seeking a role that advances creative growth? Are you interested in contributing to a team that develops business solutions that benefit independent artists and music companies alike? Then join our client, where they have the privilege of serving the entire creative music community!

Our client has developed a cloud-based enterprise software platform to support their rapidly growing and evolving business. Their software platform is a set of cloud-native, federated systems that are highly scalable, resilient, and modular, leveraging both custom-built and 3rd party components. They are seeking individuals to become members of their growing Engineering team to help evolve their software strategy and products and expand service offerings to the music industry.

They are looking for Senior Software Engineers with strong Java development experience that will be contributors to the full lifecycle of the software development process as part of the Publishing Distribution Engine team. This team is building out new capabilities to meet the needs of their growing Music Publishing business. In this role, you will be hands-on, performing software development, responsible for developing new features, modifying and refactoring existing design and integrating custom and 3rd party systems. You will bring skills in full stack development and have a deep knowledge of object-oriented software engineering practices and principles.

With your help, our client will collect and distribute digital performance royalties on behalf of more than 200,000 recording artists and master rights owners accounts and administer direct agreements on behalf of rights owners and licensees. You will also work together to build and enhance the additional services (particularly for music publishing) that our client provides to the entire music industry.

Responsibilities:

• Contributes as a hands-on engineer to a small full-lifecycle software development team including design, development, and deployment including automated and functional/behavior-driven testing
• Develops new features in a highly collaborative environment
• Follows and improves software development best practices to achieve a high level of quality, maintainability, and security
• Works with team and stakeholders to create clean, maintainable technical solutions to complex business problems
• Actively contributes to the team software design and development process by bringing new ideas and alternative ways of solving problems, contributing to design sessions, and improving quality of code through code reviews and other quality metrics
• Leverages and enhances continuous build and deployment tools

Desired Skills and Qualifications:

• 5 years of overall software engineering experience
• Proficiency with Java (8/11 )
• Proficient using one or more of the following tools or technologies: SQL, Git, Spring
• Experience deploying and maintaining applications within AWS or equivalent technologies including utilizing RDS, Lambda, Step Functions, Athena, Aurora, SQS, Fargate
• Experience in Agile software development methodology, teams, processes, and practices
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have Skills or Qualifications:

• Experience building enterprise software with complex business rules, domain models, and data models
• Experience designing and developing microservices or other distributed systems
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code technologies

This is a long term full time contract position working for our Washington DC (NW) based client. This position can either be Hybrid in Office, or 100% Remote. The hourly rate for this position can be up to $115/hr. based on how you would like to be compensated. We also would consider making you a full time employee/W2 of AAJ Interactive during the contracting period of this position, if this is what you would prefer.

If this sounds like you, please respond with your salary requirements as soon as possible.

Please no telecommuters or agencies.

About AAJ Interactive Technologies:

AAJ Interactive Technologies, established in 1997 by cutting-edge technology executives, is a technology professional-services company supplying project-based consulting, staff augmentation, and recruiting services to leading firms throughout Metropolitan Washington, DC area.

We work differently from most of our competition. In our careers, we have been the ones doing the hiring (managing and mentoring large staffs in a corporate culture), and we have been the ones being hired (consulting in small and large roles alike). This unique perspective allows us to understand both sides of this business. We take the time to ensure our consultants/candidates will be successful where they are placed.

We believe that because of our principles we have succeeded where others have failed. The recruiting/technology space can be full of companies that are not really looking out for your interests ask around we re not one of them! We want you to succeed, and we ll do everything we can to help you do just that!