We’re small, fast, innovative and bursting at the seams with people passionate about music and technology.
We’re growing at a rapid pace and seeking enthusiastic, creative, intelligent and fun individuals to join us in a variety of roles. In return, we can offer you a fun but hard-working environment where you can instantly see your contribution to the company’s success.
For more information about our company structure, please see the staff section of About Us. Our current career positions are listed here, but we’re always on the look-out for exceptional individuals in digital media for permanent, contract or freelance work. Please email a CV and covering letter to careers@7digital.com.
We’re looking for a highly-organised and resourceful individual to assume responsibility for the focus, accuracy, quality and growth of the 7digital catalogue, which currently includes over 18 million audio and video tracks plus a growing number of ebooks. The role exists at the intersection of the commercial and technical aspects of the company, and the catalogue is used in every area of the business.
The Catalogue Manager looks after the Catalogue team and must deploy the technical resources at their disposal to maximise efficiency and productivity, whilst working with the Development and Systems departments to improve the processes and tools available.
Comfortable with responsibility, the successful candidate will be an excellent communicator, demonstrating initiative and managerial skills, with experience of databases and digital media delivery.
REQUIREMENTS:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Term: Permanent (Full-time)
Location: Shoreditch, UK
To start: May 2012
IMPORTANT:
To apply, please e-mail your CV and a covering letter to
careers+catalogue@7digital.com
When applying for the position please ensure that the subject field contains the following text
7digital: I am applying for Catalogue Manager
N.B. If the subject does not contain the exact text above your application risks being deleted.
We're looking for a highly organised and enthusiastic individual to help manage user feedback and enquiries, assist in ongoing testing of our services, and ensure that our customers receive prompt responses. With exceptional communication skills and an ability to prioritise, the Customer Services Assistant will make a significant contribution to us and our users’ experiences.
The successful candidate will be proactive, assertive, display an upbeat attitude and be comfortable with responsibility. Due to the nature of digital media and retail, the preferred candidate may be required to work some weekends and beyond office hours.
REQUIREMENTS:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Term: Permanent (Full-time)
Location: Shoreditch, London
Start Date: as soon as possible
IMPORTANT:
To apply, please e-mail your CV and a covering letter to
When applying for the position please ensure that the subject field contains the following text
7digital: I am applying for Customer Services Assistant
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As part of the Catalogue and Operations department, the Catalogue team ensures a smooth end to the digital supply chain to increase the 7digital catalogue by hundreds-of-thousands of items each week.
We’re looking for motivated individuals to help freshen and maintain our rapidly growing digital media catalogue. A Catalogue Administrator is expected to encode and import digital content and subsequently maintain the data imported through our ingestion processes. Liaising with licensors and technical partners is fundamental to maintaining the consistent flow of data and communication between all interested parties. Ensuring the integrity of our catalogue supports our Consumer Stores and Sales teams and working with our Customer Services and Development teams allows us to meet the needs of our end consumers and licensors.
The successful candidate will be an organised individual with good communication skills, an eye for detail, a professional “can do” attitude and passion for all things technical. The company needs team players who are willing and able to work to tight deadlines and respond to partners’ ever changing needs, performing additional duties as necessary. The candidate must be presentable, keen to take responsibility and be confident in managing tasks without direct supervision. The role would suit candidates looking to gain entry into the digital media industry.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Knowledge of digital media files & formats
• Passion for music, video & digital media
• IT skills – solid understanding of Microsoft Word, Excel and ability to pick up unfamiliar programs quickly
• Troubleshooting abilities
• Attention to detail
• Quick mindedness and communication
• Flexibility to adapt to rapidly changing priorities
• Organisation
• Enthusiasm
• Awareness of XML metadata
• Basic appreciation of databases desirable but not essential
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
• Ingestion of all allocated licensors’ content in an ordered manner, prioritising according to business needs
• Primary daily liaison with licensors, discussing pending XML deliveries and resolving technical issues
• Providing other departments with a transparent and clear picture of product statuses
• Managing personal hardware resources, redistributing and flagging bottlenecks as necessary
• Curating catalogue according to current product knowledge
• Taking ownership of priority ingestion setups and attending to them with meticulous care and accuracy
Term: Three month contract (Full-time)
Location:Shoreditch, UK
To start: June 2012
Salary: £16k pro rata
IMPORTANT:
• You must already be fully eligible to work in the UK
• Due to the volume of applicants we get, if you do not hear back from us within 21 days of applying please assume you have been unsuccessful
To apply, please e-mail your CV and a covering letter to
When applying for the position please ensure that the subject field contains the following text
7digital: I am applying for Catalogue Administrator
N.B. If the subject does not contain the exact text above, your application risks being deleted.
We are seeking a talented individual to help manage our constantly-expanding network of stores. You will be responsible for stores and consumer-facing services in the UK and Ireland.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
Experience and knowledge:
Skills and abilities:
Personal qualities:
Term: Permanent (Full-time)
Location: London
Start Date: as soon as possible, ideally April 16th at the latest
To apply, please e-mail your CV and a covering letter to
careers@7digital.com
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STORE MANAGER LONDON Q2
N.B. If the subject does not contain the exact text above your application risks being deleted.
This role is to join the newly formed Content Ingestion Team who are responsible for building the brand new ingestion platform at 7digital.
7digital Ltd. is a leading digital media delivery company based in London and operating globally.
At 7digital we believe software development involves a lot more than just writing code. We see it as our remit to really understand our domain and stakeholders so we can deliver as much value to the business as possible. When we do write code we believe it has to be done really well. To us quality (both internal and external) really matters.
This role is to join the newly formed Content Ingestion Team who are responsible for building the brand new ingestion platform at 7digital. The nature of this task means that experience of CQRS, publish/subscribe pattern, queuing technologies and noSQL would be a significant benefit. We need people with experience in these technologies and architectures as the ingestion process is pivotal and will drive changes that will influence every aspect of the organisation.
You’ll be joining an extremely enthusiastic team who enjoy what we do. Among other things, Pair Programming, TDD/BDD, Refactoring, and Continuous Delivery are deeply embedded and we’re constantly striving to improve the way we work. We know typing is not the bottleneck, so among other things:
However, we’re not perfect and not afraid to say so. We recognise we have many problems which need solving and a long way to go on our journey of continuous improvement.
Most of our stack is C#/.Net but we’re using and investigating many other languages and technologies (e.g. Ruby, server side JavaScript, C++, Python). Here’s a (not exclusive) list of technologies we currently use:
For this role we are also particularly interested in people who have experience with CQRS, Pub/Sub and Message Based systems.
We’re also very keen on open source. We contribute to some of the technologies listed above as well as maintaining our own forks (+ publishing other things we’d like to share) on our GitHub account.
You care about software, you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions rather than just waffly personal statements on your CV. For you it’s more than a job.
For this role, experience with Agile/XP practices such as TDD, refactoring and pair programming are not essential as the team is very capable in this area. However you must be willing and enthusiastic about working in this manner. Maybe you’ve always wanted to but your current job doesn’t allow for it.
Please, no agencies. Any CVs submitted via agencies will be ignored.
If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a cover note to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: “7digital: I am applying for Content Ingestion Team Developer”.
If not on your CV, your cover note should include:
If we’re impressed by your CV and covering letter we’ll initially bring you in for a pair programming exercise (in C#, takes about 1 hour). If that goes well you’ll have one or two face-to-face interviews with some of our developers and representatives from other (non-technical) teams or individuals.
7digital are looking for smart, self-motivated software developers to join our exceptional and passionate development team. Good working TDD experience is essential for this role.
7digital Ltd. is a leading digital media delivery company based in London and operating globally.
At 7digital we believe software development involves a lot more than just writing code. We see it as our remit to really understand our domain and stakeholders so we can deliver as much value to the business as possible. When we do write code we believe it has to be done really well. To us quality (both internal and external) really matters.
You care about software, you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions rather than just waffly personal statements on your CV. For you it’s more than a job.
We’re strong advocates of TDD. We think that TDD in particular represents such a different mindset that we would only consider you for a senior position if you have significant working experience with TDD. If you do have working experience with TDD great! We want to know more. How much? How did you do TDD? How have you used TDD on a recent project? What problems have you faced? The more the better!
You’ll be joining an extremely enthusiastic team who enjoy what they do. Among other things, Pair Programming, TDD/BDD, Refactoring, and Continuous Delivery are deeply embedded and we’re constantly striving to improve the way we work. We know typing is not the bottleneck, so among other things:
However, we’re not perfect and not afraid to say so. We recognise we have many problems which need solving and a long way to go on our journey of continuous improvement.
Most of our stack is C#/.Net but we’re using and investigating many other languages and technologies (e.g. Ruby, server side JavaScript, C++, Python). We’d be interested in candidates from any background as long as you have a keen understanding of Object Oriented languages. Here’s a (not exclusive) list of technologies we currently use:
We’re also very keen on open source. We contribute to some of the technologies listed above as well as maintaining our own forks (+ publishing other things we’d like to share) on our GitHub account
Please, no agencies. Any CVs submitted via agencies will be ignored.
If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a cover note to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: “7digital: I am applying for Senior Developer”.
If not on your CV, your cover note should include:
If we’re impressed by your CV and covering letter we’ll initially bring you in for a pair programming exercise (in C#, takes about 1 hour). If that goes well you’ll have one or two face-to-face interviews with some of our developers and representatives from other (non-technical) teams or individuals.
You may not have much (or any) working experience with TDD & Agile practices, but you want to work somewhere that passionately believes in them.
7digital Ltd. is a leading digital media delivery company based in London and operating globally.
At 7digital we believe software development involves a lot more than just writing code. We see it as our remit to really understand our domain and stakeholders so we can deliver as much value to the business as possible. When we do write code we believe it has to be done really well. To us quality (both internal and external) really matters.
You care about software, you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions rather than just waffly personal statements on your CV. For you it’s more than a job.
Experience otherwise is relative – 2 years working in an agile/XP manner is worth much more to us than 5 in a traditional environment. If you’ve not got working experience with things like TDD and refactoring (maybe you’ve always wanted to but your current job doesn’t allow for it) show us you’re at least familiar with the concepts and that you really want to work in this kind of environment and you’re still in with a good chance.
You’ll be joining an extremely enthusiastic team who enjoy what they do. Among other things, Pair Programming, TDD/BDD, Refactoring, and Continuous Delivery are deeply embedded and we’re constantly striving to improve the way we work. We know typing is not the bottleneck, so among other things:
However, we’re not perfect and not afraid to say so. We recognise we have many problems which need solving and a long way to go on our journey of continuous improvement.
Most of our stack is C#/.Net but we’re using and investigating many other languages and technologies (e.g. Ruby, server side JavaScript, C++, Python). We’d be interested in candidates from any background as long as you have a keen understanding of Object Oriented languages. Here’s a (not exclusive) list of technologies we currently use:
We’re also very keen on open source. We contribute to some of the technologies listed above as well as maintaining our own forks (+ publishing other things we’d like to share) on our GitHub account
Please, no agencies. Any CVs submitted via agencies will be ignored.
If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a cover note to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: “7digital: I am applying for Developer (mid-level)”.
If not on your CV, your cover note should include:
If we’re impressed by your CV and covering letter we’ll initially bring you in for a pair programming exercise (in C#, takes about 1 hour). If that goes well you’ll have one or two face-to-face interviews with some of our developers and representatives from other (non-technical) teams or individuals.
You may not have much (or any) working experience with TDD & Agile practices, or even software development, but you want to gain some experience somewhere that passionately believes in them. You're probably still at university on a software engineering or computer science course and want some experience during your summer break, or you've recently graduated and want to see what software development is all about.
You care about software and want to embark on a career in software development in an environment that promotes quality. You know that a CV should show who you are conveyed by your actions rather than just waffly personal statements. You like to hack small projects in your spare time and want to work on something on a larger scale, with a passionate team, for a company with interesting customers and innovative new ideas. You’re enthusiastic and want to learn from some of the best developers in the country using the latest technologies.
We’re flexible about our internship roles. We have a number of small, innovative projects that you can help out on, or you can pair up in a team and work on our API, content ingestion system, web site or search functions. Wherever you go in our development team you’ll be joining an extremely enthusiastic set of developers who enjoy what they do. Among other things, Pair Programming, TDD/BDD, Refactoring, and Continuous Delivery are deeply embedded and we’re constantly striving to improve the way we work. We know typing is not the bottleneck, so among other things:
We also work closely with the music industry and major labels, and with large electronics companies too so you’ll gain great experience in an ever-changing and interesting field.
Most of our stack is C#/.Net but we’re using and investigating many other languages and technologies (e.g. Ruby, server side JavaScript, C++, Python). We’d be interested in candidates from any background as long as you have a keen understanding of Object Oriented languages. Here’s a (not exclusive) list of technologies we currently use:
We’re also very keen on open source. We contribute to some of the technologies listed above as well as maintaining our own forks (+ publishing other things we’d like to share) on our GitHub account
If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a cover note to paul.shannon@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: “7digital: I am applying for Developer (intern)”.
If not on your CV, your cover note should include:
This is a "tester" role, but we think there's a lot more to it than your typical tester role. It requires exceptional communication skills and suits someone who really enjoys collaborating with others.
You’ll be joining an extremely enthusiastic team who enjoy what we do. We’re very test focused and see QA/testing as a role that sits at the heart of the development team. We’re heavily inspired by Agile thinking and are continuously trying to improve the way we work by doing things such as:
However we’re not perfect and not afraid to say so. We recognise we have many problems which need solving and a long way to go on our journey of continuous improvement.
At 7digital we see testing as something everyone should be involved with and at all stages of the product life cycle. In that respect it’s your role lead and educate the team on ensuring we’re doing our utmost to ensure quality is baked in to everything we do from the outset. Whilst traditional manual inspection will still be part of your job (and something at which you should excel):
You care about software, you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions rather than just waffly personal statements on your CV. Experience is relative – one or two years working in a good agile environment is worth more to us than twenty in a traditional one. No or little experience either way? Show us you care and want to be better and if we’re looking for someone junior you’ve still got a good chance.
Please, no agencies. Any CVs submitted via agencies will be ignored.
If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a cover note to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: “7digital: I am applying for Software Quality Coach”.
(If the subject doesn’t contain the exact text above, your application risks being deleted).
Your covering note should state:
If we’re impressed by your CV and covering letter we’ll initially bring you in for a formal-ish Q&A and a short practical exercise (takes about 1 hour). If that goes well you’ll have one or two face-to-face interviews with some of our developers and representatives from other (non-technical) teams or individuals.
This job is for a cross-platform generalist to join the Systems team and provide some informed Windows experience without getting religious about it. Our core business logic runs on IIS/.NET, routed via a Linux stack; the person doing this job will be comfortable working in both environments.
7digital sells “digital stuff” directly to consumers, and also sells services to businesses through which they sell digital stuff to their customers. We started doing the latter, moved into the former, and now both are equally important to us. You might know of us as an MP3 download store — we power HMVdigital.com as well as our own 7digital.com — but that’s not all that “digital stuff” encapsulates. Amongst many others, we also provide the ebooks service for Waterstones and the Ubuntu One music store. However it’s the explosive growth of our API (providing access to the metadata around our almost 18-million strong music catalogue) where the fun scaling challenges happen. That’s where this job comes in.
Our Systems team is growing. We’re a product-centric company, which sometimes means we’ve focused on features at the expense of our platforms. We started turning this around a couple of years ago but there’s still work to be done – and still some gaps in the team.
This job is for a cross-platform generalist to join the Systems team and provide some informed Windows experience without getting religious about it. We’re a team with a Linux bias — we don’t hide that — but our core business logic runs on .NET via a Linux stack. We need someone who enjoys working with Windows in a non-homogeneous environment. That is to say, someone who enjoys putting it to best use in the right place, but without feeling that every server they can’t RDP into is a waste of a good CPU.
At the moment, “the right place” is running IIS for web traffic, and SQL Server for DBs. This may change as our platform requirements change – and the person doing this job will be right at the core of helping the rest of the business to evaluate, decide and then understand the implications of that change.
There’s a sane, paid, out-of-hours on-call rota (for emergencies only) which currently runs 1-week-in-4. It won’t ever get more frequent than that. This job does not involve IT Support; we already have people who are great at that.
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Get in touch with michelle.flynn@7digital.com with everything you think we need to know about you. CV, covering letter, Github URI, etc: it’s your choice (but a CV is always useful). If you put “System Administrator” somewhere in the subject that’ll help us get back to you more quickly.
We're looking for a DBA/DB Developer who likes the idea of working with big, fast things and making them go faster
7digital Ltd. is a leading digital media delivery company based in London and operating globally.
We’re looking for someone with a mix of administration and database development experience/skills who is happy to do both. On the development side experience with refactoring databases and serious performance tuning would be highly desirable, as would experience with hardware design and provision for MS SQL server. On the DBA side we need someone who’s experienced with managing replication (transactional and merge), security, backups and upgrades and who would also be happy supporting and working with the development team – and others in the organisation – maintaining, configuring and making modifications to our databases.
Oh, and we’re really big on Agile practices and methodologies so an exposure to those kind of environments and being happy to work in that manner would be great.
Among other things the role would entail:
You’re going to have a spark about you which tells us you’re not some run-of-the-mill jobsworth. You will be charismatic and enthusiastic and have the type of personality which means you get on well with people. You hate people who whinge and moan about things, but don’t do anything about it – when you see a problem you go out of your way to solve it. You don’t see the business as your enemy, you care about doing a good job and doing the right thing by the organisation you work for.
Please, no agencies. Any CVs submitted via agencies will be ignored.
If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a covering letter to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: “7digital: I am applying for DBA/Database Developer”. (If the subject doesn’t contain the exact text above, your application risks being deleted).
If not on your CV, your covering letter should include:
We’re looking for an enthusiastic individual to assist the management of 7digital’s international download stores.
The role is varied and will give you insight into many areas of the company including International Markets, Music Editorial, Consumer Promotions, Customer Services and Label Relations. You will be working on the international stores, contributing to their editorial, helping with the weekly newsletters, conducting research into various markets and working closely with our outreach to consumers through media contacts and customer services support.
We are looking for someone with rich language skills to join for either part-time (minimum of 4 months) or full-time (minimum of 6 weeks).
Intern details
Term: 6 weeks+
The internship is unpaid, but you will receive travel expenses (up to and including London Zones 1-6), reimbursement for lunch expenses (up to £5 per day) and university or college credits.
Location: We’re based in Zetland House, Shoreditch
Role
Skills and Requirements
What do you get out of it?
To apply, please e-mail your CV and a covering letter to careers@7digital.com
When applying for this position please include the subject line – 7digital: I am applying for INTERNATIONAL INTERN