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 live and foster psychological safety, constructive nonconformity, and diversity of thought! 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.
Deutsche Grammophon (DG) is one of Universal’s most appraised and long-standing labels, upholding its tradition and excellence for over 125 years: DG is the market leader for classical music and represents extraordinary artists.
We are operating STAGE+, our global premium multi-platform streaming service for classical (live) video and audio content. This is a unique opportunity to be part of that journey.
Within your future role you will contribute to further develop and maintain this platform in a customer-centric way. We’re not looking for buzzword collectors or perfect résumés. We’re looking for someone who focuses on building solid software, communicates clearly, and contributes to a healthy, collaborative team - experience comes in many forms.
Here’s your chance to join! Effective immediately, we’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer, Streaming Platform (all genders) to become part of our STAGE+ team at our Headquarters in Berlin. It will be a permanent full-time position reporting to our Director of Engineering Streaming Platform.
Your gig:
- Build and ship features for our streaming platform — from idea to production
- Co-maintain our web application from landing pages to streaming player and more
- Take part in architectural discussions and contribute to long-term technical decisions
- Work in a self-organized team that relies on clear communication and practical engineering
- Share your knowledge when it’s helpful
- Closely collaborate with our other teams working on other platforms (iOS/Android/SmartTV etc.)
We are keen to jam with you if you:
- Are experienced with modern web technologies (e.g., TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Web APIs)
- Have a good grasp of software engineering fundamentals and code quality practices (e.g., component-driven approach, end-to-end testing, avoiding premature abstraction); ideally your also experienced with CI/CD, observability and cloud environments
- Possess the ability to analyze complex problems and make sound technical decisions
- Feel confident and natural reading, writing, and speaking English and can communicate efficiently in tech as well as business-related contexts; German skills are a plus, but the willingness is to learn the language is a must
Your personality matters:
- You are enthusiastic about the music industry and eager to actively contribute to building an inspiring ecosystem for artists, creatives and fans
- You have a collaborative mindset and the ability to work productively in a cross-functional team
- You are driven by curiosity and the willingness to pick up new tools, frameworks or approaches; you are eager to learn - without turning it into a grand philosophy
- You thrive within an agile, but practical environment - we use what works, not what’s fashionable
- You value clarity, pragmatism and healthy collaboration — no artificial heroism, no over-engineering
Our Tech Stack (excerpt):
- React, TypeScript, Node.js, Tailwind CSS
- GraphQL APIs
- Modern CI/CD pipelines
- HTML5 Audio and Video Streaming implementation (HLS)
Our values, our compass, our culture:
- Creativity – Home to Artists, Innovators and Entrepreneurs.
- Connection – We are ONE team.
- Passion – Music is our first love.
- Responsibility – It’s up to us.
- Diversity – Music is universal.
- Factuition – Guided by head AND heart.
Our benefits – because you’re important to us:
- Feel the music! – Thanks to a concert ticket budget, streaming service vouchers, employee discounts on physical music and merchandise products as well as various internal events
- Enjoy flexibility! – Thanks to our hybrid work model you benefit from high flexibility and room for collaboration and interactions in our headquarter in Berlin
- Time to relax! – You are more than your job, benefit from 30 vacation days as well as up to 10.5 additional days off per year
- Always on track! - Keep moving sustainably through the capital thanks to special rates for BVG tickets (public transport) and our job bike leasing offer
- Develop yourself! - We offer professional development through various workshops and courses
- Self-care matters! – We promote and support 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
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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.
MUSIC IS UNIVERSAL!
As a large and globally operating company, Universal Music promotes diversity and opposes discrimination. We aspire to reflect the diversity represented by our artists through their music and individuality in our teams. We pledge ourselves to be an equal opportunity employer and enable individuals to express themselves – regardless of age, sex, gender, appearance, origin, faith, physical/mental ability, or sexual orientation.
If you are unsure about submitting an application because, for example, you do not fulfil all the requirements, we would like to encourage you to try it nonetheless!
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