Are you an entertainment news junkie? Do you thrill your friends with tales torn from famous and obscure sources about artists and performers of every ilk? Are you a bit of a data-head who’s a little obsessed with entertainment charts, ranks, lists and stats? Do you knowingly smile to yourself as you watch a story’s blow-up path, from the feeds to the web to TV, all fueled by the public’s fascination with all things entertainment? And do you have an eye for fact-based stories and an understanding of the role data plays in their telling? If so, we'd like to talk!
Luminate is the preeminent entertainment data and insights company, unlocking access to the most essential, objective, and trustworthy data compiled from thousands of verified data sources. The beneficiary of industry consolidation, Luminate now houses what was once Nielsen Music, BDS Radio, SoundScan, Music Connect, Alpha Data and Variety Business Intelligence.
Luminate is looking for experienced Senior Software Engineers to join our team. We have a deep bench of domain expertise, what we want from you is a passion for distributed systems 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 a team of product managers, designers, data scientists and your fellow engineers to deliver a high-quality software platform that brings value to our clients. 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 our product roadmap utilizing modern software development practices.
- Developing not just the code, but all other parts of the stack for the work: tests, infrastructure, etc. We’re a small team and we want to develop competencies across the entire stack for the mutual benefit of the whole team.
- Helping advise and educate on engineering best practices and participating in design and architecture discussions to help make sure our work stays aligned with business objectives.
- Managing risk and uncertainty while moving forward with the business as we bring our platform to new markets and audiences.
- Contributing back to our nascent engineering practice in ways that best demonstrate your own unique strengths
Deep, meaningful and recent development experiences with three or more of the following is desired but not required:
- An exceptional foundation of computer science fundamentals
- A strong command of SQL
- Python with dbt or other robust data pipeline frameworks and tools (Pyspark, pandas etc).
- CI/CD experience, ideally with low/no-downtime deployments for a SaaS product (safe data migrations etc)
- Best practices for development with public cloud environments, preferably AWS
- Experience with Snowflake or other big data warehousing systems.
We would be over the moon if you have experience or skills specifically in:
- Data analytics or warehousing experience in an environment with demanding customers or regulatory requirements
- Data ingestion and query optimization best practices
- Domain knowledge of any entertainment industry’s data modeling or business operations
- Experiences with the challenges of testing data analytics products and the underlying data sets that power them.
- 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 customers!
- You’ve succeeded in delivering complete 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 needed.
- You are capable of adapting your style to the needs of your team.
- You’ve now tackled multiple parts of the system and have started to develop a deeper understanding of the entire platform and are able to contribute meaningfully to the larger development effort across the engineering organization.
- You are combining your prior experience with what you’ve learned to develop subject matter expertise in some portion of the system.
- You worked with your manager to create goals aligned to your career and development interests for the year ahead. Perhaps you are tapped to become a technical team lead for one of our teams. You have the support and resources at hand to go on that journey.
As Luminate values in-person collaboration and team cohesion, employees work onsite 4 days a week and 1 day remotely with a focus on maintaining a vibrant and inclusive culture.
For candidates based in New York: A good faith estimate of the salary is $160,000 - $175,000 upon hire. We consider your skills and experience, what similar jobs pay at companies of our size, and ensure fair pay among colleagues. Final base salary offer amounts are determined by factors including your experience and expertise. In addition we are proud to offer additional perks and benefits that contribute and complete our total compensation package. Luminate reserves the right to change our compensation bands at any time.
Additionally, applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
More About Us: Luminate has incredible 30 year history that has made us who we are today. We power the Billboard Charts, but we also inform the entire music industry with exclusive research, data and insights. We serve the television and film industry, providing deep meta-data on every major production and title.
Luminate is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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What We Do
We are Luminate, entertainment’s preeminent data, and insights company, unleashing access to the most essential, objective, and trustworthy information across music, film, and television.
Our work isn’t just powerful — it’s prescient. We’re rooted at the intersection of tech and media, in today’s challenges and tomorrow’s plans. Never losing sight of our client's needs, we deliver them essential guidance with the highest levels of quality and accuracy. But we always look ahead. We search for answers to questions no one has thought yet to ask. We pair exceptional technology with the most expansive and trusted database of its kind, consistently evolving, enabling our clients to make their most informed and impactful decisions. The result is a best-in-class level of predictive analytics, accompanied by expert, unbiased insight.
We are music lovers and enthusiastic gamers, passionate film buffs and social engages, scrolling online and tapping into the zeitgeist. We are technologists, experts across a myriad of subjects, scientists, and developers. We are curious. That’s why we do what we do.
Why Work With Us
Data is currency. It’s ubiquitous and in many spaces it’s commoditized, but not here. Luminate data speaks. It tells us what people love most and why. It shows us how we spend our precious time and how we live with technology. To us, it’s more than numbers and code. We love what we do because we love what it’s all about.
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