[Remote] Principal Backend Engineer – Music Discovery Platform - Roon

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HARMAN International is revolutionizing music metadata management and discovery through innovative technology platforms. The company is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to architect scalable APIs and backend systems for music search, recommendation, personalization, and user interaction, while leading engineering efforts and collaborating across product, frontend, and data teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop robust, scalable, and secure APIs for music catalog, recommendation, and search
• Design data models and manage integrations with third-party music metadata providers, streaming services, and analytics platforms
• Lead backend engineering efforts, setting coding standards, reviewing code, and mentoring junior engineers
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to define API contracts and deliver seamless user experiences
• Optimize performance of backend services, ensuring low latency and high availability
• Implement observability tools for monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system reliability
• Drive technical innovation, evaluating new technologies and frameworks to improve development velocity and system capabilities

Skills

• • 10+ years of backend services development
• • Technical Skills: Strong understanding of modern backend development tools
• • Strong proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go or similar backend languages
• • Deep understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and cloud-native development
• • Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, and Azure
• • Deployment Technologies: Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and Serverless architectures
• • CI/CD: Proficient with automated pipelines for continuous build and integration systems
• • Experience with databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, BigQuery), caching strategies, and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• • Position is 100% Remote
• • You must be available for meetings and team interaction during typical continental US business hours
• • Be willing to travel up to 5%, domestically and internationally
• • Familiarity with music metadata standards, recommendation systems, or audio streaming APIs is a plus
• • Experience with machine learning pipelines or recommendation engines (strongly desired)
• • Experience working with machine learning workloads in production
• • Experience working with audio music streaming services
• • Knowledge of music theory, audio fingerprinting, or digital signal processing
• • Familiarity with C# and .NET based technologies
• • Contributions to open-source projects or technical blogs
• • A passion for delivering top-notch audio experiences to users and an interest in the audio technology domain

Benefits

• Competitive wellness benefits
• 401K Retirement Savings plan
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities
• Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment
• Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies and extensive course catalog
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN products (JBL, Harman/Kardon, etc.)
• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program
• 100% Remote
• Bonuses or commission
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Paid sick leave
• Volunteer leave
• Paid bonding and care giver leave
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Fertility support and adoption assistance
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Retirement savings plan with employer match
• Short and long term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• Added opportunities for training, development, and continuing education

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