Software Engineer

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

•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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Preferred experience

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)