Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable Systems & AI Tools

Playlist; United States; On-site; USD 151,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Playlist is building a backend powerhouse to power its experiences. You will own distributed systems, data modeling, and pragmatic design, delivering reliable services at scale while keeping architecture simple.

You’ll apply AI tooling to accelerate delivery, mentor teammates, and raise engineering standards across testing, reviews, and observability. Collaborate with product and design to ship APIs end-to-end in a high-availability environment.

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Design to deliver features end-to-end, iterating based on feedback and outcomes

Skills

Distributed systems

Data modeling

SOA design

Java/Kotlin/C#

SDLC/Agile

AI tooling awareness

Communication

Tools

Java/Kotlin/C#

SpringBoot/NetCore

PostgreSQL/MongoDB/DynamoDB

Redis

Gradle

CI/CD

JUnit/Mockito/TestContainers

Observability tools

Job description

Playlist is building a backend powerhouse to power its experiences. You will own distributed systems, data modeling, and pragmatic design, delivering reliable services at scale while keeping architecture simple.

You’ll apply AI tooling to accelerate delivery, mentor teammates, and raise engineering standards across testing, reviews, and observability. Collaborate with product and design to ship APIs end-to-end in a high-availability environment.