Title: Senior Software Engineer, PythonDepartment: TechnologyJob Location: Washington, DC or anywhere (Continental US)Reports To: Director, EngineeringSupervisory Role: NoFLSA Status: Exempt

Position Summary:

Data processing is an essential pillar that supports SoundExchange’s mission to fairly compensate artists for their work. This Senior Software Engineer role will be a champion of ensuring the quality, speed, and availability of critical data to our Operations teams. To accomplish their mission, they will need to have a deep understanding of data topologies and the business processes that depend on them. The ideal candidate will have a positive attitude and be able to quickly adapt to rapidly changing priorities while wearing multiple hats.

Essential Functions:

• Contribute to ETL workflows, application code, infrastructure, and everything else required to support our data centric workflows.
• Profile and analyze data sets at every stage of the pipeline.
• Design and build data models for optimal storage and retrieval and to meet critical product and business requirements.
• Apply software engineering principles to create reliable, automated data solutions to solve critical business needs.
• Work with other engineering teams on both stakeholder-driven projects as well as engineering-driven, platform projects.
• Demonstrate responsibility, accountability, and dedication to engineering team success.
• Establish and promote use of technologies and processes that improve data quality and increase operational efficiency.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (KSAs):

• Must have wide ranging experience on multiple projects covering a multitude of technologies at different levels.
• Must demonstrate above average abilities in some of these areas:o Deep understanding of SQL.o Understanding of database concepts such as dimensional modeling, ACID, ERDs etc.o Big data technologies: Redshift, Bigquery, Presto, Athena, ElasticSearch, Message Queues etc.o AWS (S3, ECS, RDS, and all core services)o Good knowledge of modern programming languages such as Python, Java, Ruby etc.
• Experience building enterprise software with complex business rules and data models.
• Experience designing solutions around data quality, observability, and analytics.
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively with team members and business partners.

Required Education, Certifications/ Licenses, Related Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 5 or more years of experience in software engineering

ADA Specifications:

• This position requires the ability to remain in a stationary position (standing and/or seated) all of the time.
• This position requires the ability to spend all of the time viewing computer monitors.

Travel Requirements:

• If hired remote, this person is expected to travel to the Washington DC corporate office as needed (3-4 times per year minimum).