Software Engineer

Company Description

Acquired by Believe in 2023, Sentric is an independent music publisher servicing self-releasing songwriters and disrupting traditional publishing with fair, transparent deals. We recently launched Believe Music Publishing, offering premium services from publishing administration to tailored publishing deals. Together, we empower a diverse client base of artists, songwriters, record labels, and catalogue owners to collect the royalties they deserve. With intuitive technology and a people-first approach, we’ve built a team of over 160 publishing experts worldwide, including more than 15 Sync specialists across North America and Europe, and dedicated teams in Creative, Revenue Optimisation, Royalties, Legal, and Copyright. Believe is a global artist development company. We empower local artists, labels and publishers to grow their audiences at each stage of their careers with expertise, respect, fairness and transparency. Operating in 50+ countries, with more than 2,000 employees, Believe offers a full range of services including audience development, publishing, marketing and distribution, with a tailor-made approach to fit any artist, label or publisher. Believe champions independence and innovation through a unique model that combines local expertise with a global tech platform, delivering exclusive solutions for artists to promote and monetise their music thanks to strategic partnerships with leading global digital service providers. With a leading portfolio of brands that includes Nuclear Blast, naïve, TuneCore, Groove Attack, Sentric, AllPoints and Byond, Believe artists generated more than 800 billion streams worldwide in 2024 across all genres, and were recognised with more than 70 leading industry awards. Believe is a simplified joint-stock company under French law. Learn more at www.believe.com

Job Description

Build the Future of Fair Music with Us

At Sentric, we're on a mission to give artists the fairest deal in the music industry. We're looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our product engineering team, working out of our head office in the centre of Liverpool.

We wholeheartedly embrace our core values of Honesty, Originality, Progression, and Kindness as guiding principles in our professional journey, and we're seeking people who share them.

About the Role

You'll play a key role in designing, developing, and deploying solutions that directly and positively impact artists and the music industry. You'll work across a modern stack including C#, TypeScript, ReactJS, RDBMS (MySQL), and AWS.

This role also sits within a team that's actively shaping how we build software with AI. We've adopted a structured approach to AI-augmented development, including agentic coding tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, and we're looking for someone curious and thoughtful about how these tools change (and don't change) good, ethical engineering practice.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and performant user-facing and/or back-end systems

• Contribute to technical strategy and architectural decisions, always with a focus on tangible business outcomes

• Build secure APIs and integrate with third-party services and platforms

• Work within our approved AI tooling and practices, including agentic workflows (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code), applying good judgement on where AI assistance speeds up delivery and where it doesn't

• Maintain clear ownership and accountability over AI-assisted contributions, including attribution and review practices for agent-generated code

• Champion quality, observability, and resilience across everything you ship

• Collaborate closely with your squad and wider stakeholders, taking full ownership of your deliverables

• Share your knowledge, mentoring colleagues and helping shape our evolving engineering practices, including how we use AI responsibly

Join us in shaping the future of fair music. Apply now!

RECRUITERS: we have nothing but respect for your role in the industry, but we're unable to engage your services at this time.

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Qualifications

We're Looking for Someone With

• Proven product engineering experience, ideally including C#, TypeScript, ReactJS, or similar

• A solid understanding of relational databases and cloud platforms (AWS)

• Hands-on experience with, or genuine curiosity about, AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• A pragmatic, principled approach to quality and continuous improvement

Bonus Points

• Experience running .NET applications in AWS

• Experience with the CWR standard

• Familiarity with the music publishing industry

• Experience establishing or contributing to team practices around AI-assisted engineering (tooling choices, review standards, responsible use)

Requirements

• Right to work in the UK

• Ability to work on-site at the Liverpool office (hybrid role)

Additional Information

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a real, positive difference in the music industry

• A competitive salary and benefits package

• A supportive, inclusive environment that values diversity

• Flexible, hybrid working arrangements

• Real investment in your professional development, including in how you work with modern AI tooling

SET THE TONE WITH US

Working at Believe means having individual and collective impact in a fast-growing company!

At all stages of their careers, Believers are an important part of what we are doing: shaping the future of the music industry.

We need teams that truly reflect the diversity of our clients: our international presence is an inspiring and enriching work environment for each one of us, with daily opportunities to connect with our colleagues all over the world.

We have two hearts at Believe - our People and our Artists.

We believe in THE POWER OF OUR PEOPLE, who grow every day to develop their potential… We aim to provide our Believers with the best environment to thrive.

ROCK THE JOB

• 25 days annual leave increasing with length of service (28 days at 3 years, 30 days at 5 years)

• 1 day off for your birthday

• 1 day off to move house each year

• Hybrid working policy

• Salary sacrifice pension with matched employer contributions up to 10%

• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Plan

• Optional Private Medical Insurance (BIK)

• Enhanced Employee Assistance Programme

• Access to Eutelmed, a digital mental health and well-being platform offering sessions with experienced psychologists

• Tailor-made training and coaching programme

SING IN HARMONY

• Ambassador programme: an employee volunteering initiative dedicated to all Believers interested in having a positive impact on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), wellbeing and the planet.

Believe / Believe Music Publishing / Sentric Music strongly promotes equal treatment regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies.

This role is based in Liverpool. You must have the right to work in the UK otherwise your application will not be considered.

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