Senior Python Developer (Music Rights Platform)

Location: Remote or office-based in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, or Ukraine; listed locations include Almaty, Astana, Belgrade, Cluj-Napoca, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Krakow, Kyiv, Larnaca, Lodz, Lublin, Lviv, Odesa, Riga, Sofia, Varna, Warsaw, Wroclaw, and designated remote locations in Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, and Poland.

Company

hirify.global delivers software engineering services for a global music entertainment client.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain Python backend applications, services, APIs, and microservices.
• Build tools supporting royalty processing, rights tracking, metadata management, and operational workflows.
• Integrate external systems, DSPs, licensing platforms, and internal systems.
• Design, develop, and optimize data processing workflows and ETL pipelines for large music catalog and publishing administration datasets.
• Write and optimize SQL queries and database operations.
• Collaborate with product managers, publishing operations teams, analysts, and architects while contributing to architecture and technical design discussions.

Requirements

• Strong experience with Python and TypeScript.
• Strong SQL knowledge and experience with relational databases.
• Experience building backend APIs and microservices, including REST APIs and third-party integrations.
• Experience with Unix and Linux environments and shell scripting.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals and scalable backend architecture.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good communication skills and ability to work in cross-functional teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with music publishing, royalties, licensing, or rights management systems.
• Experience with Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, or data engineering workflows.
• Experience with GraphQL and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with operational analytics and reporting tools.
• Familiarity with large-scale metadata systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote and office-based work options are available in the listed countries and locations.
• Cross-functional collaboration involves product, publishing operations, analytics, and architecture stakeholders.