A senior engineering leadership role in the Music Technology sector — focused on consumer and B2B audio platforms, streaming, interactive audio experiences, and music production tools. The role leads cross-functional engineering teams to deliver low-latency, scalable audio services and innovative music products for global audiences.
Primary Title: Head of Engineering
Role & Responsibilities
- Define and own the engineering roadmap for music products — align architecture, delivery timelines, and quality targets with product and commercial strategy.
- Lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams across backend, platform, and audio-engineering disciplines; hire senior technical talent and set organisational structure.
- Architect and deliver scalable, low-latency audio systems and real-time streaming infrastructure to support live, on-demand, and collaborative use-cases.
- Drive adoption of cloud-native best practices (microservices, Kubernetes, CI/CD) and observability to ensure reliability and measurable SLAs for audio pipelines.
- Collaborate with product, design, and data science to prioritise experiments, A/B tests, and performance targets that increase engagement and retention.
- Establish engineering-excellence playbooks — code quality, automated testing, security standards, and incident response for 24/7 audio services.
Skills & Qualifications Must-Have
- Audio Signal Processing
- Real-time Audio Streaming
- Low-latency Systems
- Distributed Systems Architecture
- Microservices
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- CI/CD
Preferred
- Apache Kafka
- Rust
- Digital Audio Workstation Integration
Benefits & Culture Highlights
- Hybrid work model with focused on engineering autonomy, craft, and measurable impact.
- Opportunity to shape flagship music products used by musicians, creators, and millions of listeners globally.
- Competitive compensation, learning budgets, and leadership development for senior technical leaders.
Skills: apache kafka,adoption,leadership,cd,architecture,rust,kubernetes,apache,ci,microservices,aws,teams
