Re:Sound is Canada’s not-for-profit music licensing company dedicated to ensuring fair compensation for artists and record companies for the public performance and broadcast of their recorded music. Representing thousands of rights holders, we champion innovation, transparency, and fairness, developing technology that enables accurate and timely royalty payments in Canada and internationally.
Job Opportunity
We are seeking a hands-on Principal Software Engineer to provide senior technical leadership for Re:Sound’s enterprise royalty, distribution, and data platforms. This role combines substantial software engineering contribution with accountability for application architecture, technical standards, and the maintainability, reliability, and evolution of our systems.
A central mandate is to build Re:Sound’s internal engineering capability as development responsibilities and AWS platform management shift from external partners. The successful candidate will work closely with developers, business stakeholders, cloud/DevOps specialists, and transition partners to sustain delivery, reduce external dependencies, and ensure continuity of critical operations. The role reports to the IT Manager and contributes to technical planning and cross-industry interoperability initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Hands-on Software Engineering & Delivery
- Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and maintain production applications, services, APIs, and data pipelines; remain actively engaged in complex implementation work.
- Lead code reviews, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, and resolution of high-priority defects and production issues.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps that balance business priorities, modernization of technology, and platform stability and security.
- Improve code quality, automated testing, maintainability, release readiness, and documentation across the development lifecycle.
- Collaborate with product owners and business teams to translate requirements into practical, supportable technical solutions.
Architecture & Technical Direction
- Own application-level architecture and technical design decisions for royalty processing, reconciliation, metadata, distribution, and supporting platforms.
- Define integration patterns, API contracts, data models, service boundaries, engineering standards, and documented architecture decisions.
- Evaluate designs against security, scalability, reliability, performance, operability, cost, and long-term maintainability requirements.
- Identify technical debt and establish pragmatic modernization priorities without disrupting critical business operations.
Platform Transition & Internal Capability
- Lead application-focused technical due diligence and structured knowledge transfer from external development partners; assess codebases, integrations, deployment dependencies, and operational runbooks.
- Help establish internal ownership of repositories, development environments, build/release processes, system documentation, and support knowledge.
- Partner with transition, infrastructure, and vendor teams to validate handover readiness through repeatable builds, deployments, troubleshooting, and recovery exercises.
- Mentor developers, share architectural context, develop engineering practices, and reduce concentration of critical platform knowledge.
AWS, DevOps & Operational Readiness
- Provide technical direction for AWS-hosted application architecture and collaborate with the DevOps/cloud engineer on infrastructure dependencies, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and deployment automation.
- Design applications for monitoring, secure configuration, fault tolerance, recoverability, and efficient use of cloud services; participate in complex incident analysis.
- Contribute to cloud cost and performance optimization and DevSecOps practices, while dedicated infrastructure specialists retain responsibility for routine cloud administration.
Continuous Improvement & Responsible AI
- Evaluate and apply appropriate AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, documentation, tests, and code quality, with required human review and data protections.
- Assess emerging technologies, including AI-enabled application capabilities, when supported by a clear business case and suitable security, privacy, and operational controls.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant hands-on delivery of enterprise or data-intensive applications and demonstrated senior technical leadership.
- Deep proficiency in Python and SQL and JavaScript; practical experience with frameworks such as Django/Celery and designing robust APIs and integrations.
- Strong experience with AWS-based applications, distributed systems, relational and NoSQL data modelling, performance optimization, and production troubleshooting.
- Proven ownership of application architecture, technical design, code quality, and mentoring in multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Experience with Git workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, Docker, and collaboration with DevOps teams; familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and cloud observability.
- Ability to understand and improve an existing complex codebase, document technical dependencies, and lead effective transfer of knowledge from third-party delivery teams.
- Strong communication skills and sound judgement in balancing delivery speed, quality, technical risk, and business priorities.
Assets
Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, AWS Glue/EMR/Redshift/RDS/S3/Lambda/Terraform, Vue.js, REST APIs, and analytics platforms; familiarity with music rights systems, data standards, identification ID’s or systems, royalty processing, or complex financial distribution workflows; practical use of secure AI-assisted engineering tools; previous experience insourcing vendor-managed software or cloud platforms.
Our Technology Environment
Python (Django, Celery), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS (including Lambda, EC2, RDS, S3, Glue, EMR and Redshift), ClickHouse, Vue.js, REST APIs, Docker, CI/CD, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Tableau and Power BI.
Why Join Re:Sound
Re:Sound offers a collaborative hybrid work environment and the opportunity to help establish internal technical ownership of mission-critical systems while directly advancing the future of music rights management.
Please Note
Applicants must have all the legally required documents to work in Canada for the full term of employment. Re:Sound is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. We thank all applicants for their interest; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Pay: $120,000.00-$130,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision care
Work Location: Hybrid remote in East York, ON M4W 3R8
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