Principal Backend Engineer

🕒 March 31

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $125.3k - $183.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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HARMAN International

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10,000+ employees

Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, HARMAN (harman.com) designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson® and Revel®, HARMAN is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform around the world. More than 50 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and connected car systems. Our software services power billions of mobile devices and systems that are connected, integrated and secure across all platforms, from work and home to car and mobile. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In March 2017, HARMAN became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. HARMAN is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. HARMAN offers a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation. Looking for a challenge where your experience is valued? Come see what you can achieve as a leader with HARMAN!

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 10 + years of backend services development • 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 • Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, and Azure • Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and Serverless architectures. • Proficient with automated pipelines for continuous build and integration systems. • Experience with databases (e.g., Postgre SQL, Big Query), caching strategies, and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ). • Familiarity with music metadata standards, recommendation systems, or audio streaming APIs is a plus. • Bachelor's degree in computer science or another related field. • 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 and 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.