Principal Backend Engineer role at HARMAN, leading the development of scalable, high-performance backend systems for the music discovery platform, Roon.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Competitive wellness benefits
- 401K Retirement Savings plan
- Flexible work schedule
- Professional development opportunities
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee discounts on HARMAN products
- Be Brilliant employee recognition and rewards program
