Lead Backend Engineer, Music Discovery (Remote)

HARMAN International; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness benefits

401K Retirement Savings

Inclusive work environment

Flexible work schedule

Professional development

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee discounts

“Be Brilliant” program

Job summary

HARMAN International is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to lead scalable backend systems powering its music data platform. You will design APIs, model data, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality metadata services.

Ideal candidates show 10+ years in backend development, deep API and microservices expertise, and hands-on cloud and container experience. This role offers a 100% remote setup with strong development and innovation opportunities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend services development.
• Strong understanding of modern backend development tools.
• Proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go or similar backend languages.
• Deep understanding of API design, microservices, and cloud-native development.
• Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop robust, scalable APIs for music catalog, recommendation, and search.
• Design data models and manage integrations with metadata providers and analytics platforms.
• Lead backend engineering efforts, set coding standards, review code, mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to define API contracts.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Microservices

Cloud-native development

Docker & Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Databases & data

Messaging systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Serverless

BigQuery

PostgreSQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

HARMAN International is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to lead scalable backend systems powering its music data platform. You will design APIs, model data, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality metadata services.

Ideal candidates show 10+ years in backend development, deep API and microservices expertise, and hands-on cloud and container experience. This role offers a 100% remote setup with strong development and innovation opportunities.