Universal Music is the market leader in the music business. The world’s most famous and most successful record labels belong to us. We’ve been writing music history for over 100 years representing legendary musicians across all genres. Our accomplishments are driven by our love for music, extraordinary artists and our ambitious team.
Beats & Bytes (B3S) is a network of small, autonomous product teams, who act as microenterprises. In order to be agile and innovative, we need degrees of freedom and agility! Empowerment and community are part of our culture. As the technical backbone we generate added value for Universal Music by solving our users’ problems. The B3S-Team forms the digital foundation for our business and actively contributes to the competitive advantage of Universal Music
The eCommerce Engineering Team is one of the teams of B3S. In close cooperation with the business divisions eCommerce D2C & Merchandise we create a virtual music & merch world for our customers. We are responsible for the technical conception and execution of web-products, and the eCommerce space. Our tasks lie within the development and maintenance of the web shop and backend systems, the programming of interfaces (APIs) as well as the creation of websites, website tracking, SEO and data privacy mechanisms.
Here’s your chance to join! We’re looking for a (Senior) Fullstack Engineer (all genders) to become part of our Beats & Bytes team at our Headquarters in Berlin. It will be a permanent full-time position.
Your tasks:
- You will work in the scope of sprints with talented and experienced colleagues as (Senior) Fullstack Engineer within an autonomous and agile eCommerce product team
- You maintain the automatic deployment process and assist the product team with CI/CD
- In cooperation with the product team, you will be responsible for the management, configuration and monitoring of cloud services
- Together with your team you will take charge of the estimation of a request, the development and QA, and the monitoring during operation
- With your product team you will assess business cases, suggest possible technological solutions and contribute towards the definition of the tech strategy of eCommerce Engineering
- The continuous advancement of eCommerce products regarding security, reduction of complexity, enhancement of cost efficiency, performance and usability are also part of your tasks
- You will keep track of the results of your developments in order to present them
- You maintain a steady exchange with the international IT and Global Security Office
- You are an active member of the developer’s community of practice and cater for best practice communication between developers
- You analyze market developments and technological trends to assess their potential application for Universal
- You share your know-how, e.g., in the form of trainings, presentations or workshops, which you prepare yourself
These are your technical qualifications:
- You have extensive experience as a Fullstack Engineer and Architect, ideally in software development within the eCommerce sector
- You are equipped with profound knowledge in PHP and Symfony starting from Version 4, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and are highly familiar with JS Frameworks such as React or ExtJS
- You bring advanced knowledge in DevOps and SRE approaches or are interested in acquiring it
- You have practical experiences in implementing interfaces to SEO- and marketing tools
- You are familiar with the configuration and usage of ERP- and PIM systems and ideally are no stranger to logistical processes
- You’ve gained experiences with the following tech stack: Docker, Git, REST, relational databases and SQL, CI/CD, UnitTests
- You stand out positively if you have experience in S3, AWS and Terraform
- You are able to communicate efficiently in a tech as well as business related context
- You’ve already worked successfully with product managers and UI/UX designers
- You feel confident and natural reading, writing and speaking English; German skills are a plus
Your personality matters:
- You have a high digital affinity and are passionate about new technologies as well as digital transformation
- You thrive working in interdisciplinary teams and you’d choose teamwork over heroism anytime; you maintain an open communication with your colleagues and have excellent people skills
- Constructive nonconformity is part of your strengths
- You can quickly empathize with other people's perspectives and know exactly when to stand your ground and how to present it convincingly
- You consider yourself an innovator and initiator who enables its environment to think outside the box; you love contributing creative ideas
- You can present topics in a very comprehensible and goal-oriented manner
- You've been described as reliable and well-organized which allows you to stay focused, structured and calm - even in stressful situations
- You’ve been praised for your excellent abilities as change maker, listener and communicator
- It is fun for you to advance products from a technical perspective and to take responsibility
- Your thinking is guided by strategy, analysis and innovation which enables you to connect the dots quickly and logically
Who we are:
- Music embodies emotion, creativity, adventure, tradition and innovation all at the same time - as a team we strive to advance the Universal Music project
- Diversity, respect and tolerance - both human and musical - are essential for us. Therefore, diversity and inclusion are consistently supported and championed by the People & Culture team as well as our Better Together initiative
- We live an open communication and thrive as a team - for this purpose we meet at eye level regardless of hierarchy
- In our business it is important to make good decisions quickly: We count on proactive employees who think ahead and find simple solutions
- Together we take responsibility, even beyond our daily business, which is why we are actively committed to more sustainability and environmental protection through our Sustainability Workgroups
Our benefits – because you’re important to us:
- Be mobile at any time! Benefit from discounts at the BVG, our job-bike leasing offer as well as home-office days
- We offer professional development through various workshops and courses
- Take care of your mental health with our Employee Assistance Program for all challenges in life (professional and private); we offer confidential counseling and coaching through a third-party provider
- Stay healthy through various sports activities and healthy food in our subsidized canteen
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We look forward to receiving your application via our online application form! Please upload your documents (letter of motivation / cover letter, CV, references) as files and state your earliest starting date as well as salary expectations.
