Senior Software Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Department: Luminate - Product & Technology

Luminate is looking for a experienced Senior Software Engineer 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 mighty 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, operations analysts, 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 parts for the work: tests, configuration, database schema, etc. We’re a small team and we develop competencies across the entire stack for the mutual benefit of everyone.
• Participating in architecture and design discussions to ensure our work stays aligned with business objectives.
• Managing risk and uncertainty while moving forward as we bring our platform to new markets and audiences.
• Contributing back to our engineering practices in ways that best demonstrate your own unique strengths.
  
  
  

Ideal Skills or Experiences

Deep, meaningful and recent development experiences with three or more of the following is desired but not required:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Developing RESTful APIs using Spring Boot in Java
• Developing React front-ends with Typescript
• Developing with public cloud environments, preferably AWS
• API Design and microservice architecture

We would be over the moon if you have experience or skills specifically in any of the following:

• CI/CD Pipelines
• Test-Driven Development
• Front end testing, ideally with Playwright
• Snowflake, or other data warehousing systems
• PostgreSQL
• OpenSearch
• Datadog
• Triaging and handling emergent issues as part of an on-call rotation
• Utilizing AI coding tools to maximize productivity while maintaining a strong scrutiny of results and accountability for all submitted code
• Utilizing project management tools such as Jira to break down and track complex work streams 

What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months that you will work toward completing?

1 month

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!

6 months

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. 

1st year

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.

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.

After submitting your application, you will receive a verification email. Please complete this verification to proceed with submitting your resume.

For candidates based in California: A good faith estimate of the salary range is $135k - $150k 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.

PMC is committed to the health and wellness of our employees. As part of our company-wide rollout of PMC’s paid healthcare plan, for this role the company pays 100% of the monthly health, dental and vision plan premiums for the employee and their family. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.