Backend Engineer - Podcast

What You’ll Do

• Design and build backend services that support podcast and video podcast content ingestion, management, and administration at scale.
• Own and operate high-availability systems, ensuring they are reliable, observable, and easy to maintain in production.
• Collaborate with SREs, other backend engineers, and cross-functional partners such as customer support and product managers to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions.
• Build and maintain integrations that support the podcast distribution API and content management systems.
• Drive operational excellence through better monitoring, alerting, automation, and incident response practices.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the platform, including evaluating AI-powered approaches to automate operational workflows.

Who You Are

• You have experience building and maintaining backend services in production, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operational readiness.
• You have strong proficiency in Ruby or Java, with experience designing and operating services in at least one of these languages. Experience with Node.js is a plus.
• You have hands-on experience with relational databases, including schema design, query optimization, and operating databases at scale.
• You understand what it takes to run high-availability systems: monitoring, alerting, graceful degradation, and incident response are familiar territory.
• You care about engineering best practices and want to build systems that are well-tested, well-documented, and easy to operate.
• You enjoy collaborating in a team environment and working closely with stakeholders to understand real-world problems and deliver practical solutions.
• You embrace AI-native development practices, using AI tools to accelerate your workflow and improve code quality.
• You are curious about applying AI-powered or agent-based approaches to improve backend, support, or operational workflows.

Where You’ll Be

• This role is based in New York.
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.