Senior Backend Engineer - Podcast

The Podcast Mission develops strategies and builds products that serve creators and listeners interested in podcast and video content. As the #1 podcast platform in the world, we look to continue improving and scaling the experience of podcasts on reputed company. We build and maintain products like reputed company for Podcasters, Megaphone, and Chartable, and are always eager to reputed company creators with easy ways to increase their audiences on reputed company and give them new innovative means for monetization. Midas owns the reputed company for Creators systems that help podcast creators control and enrich how their content appears on reputed company. We build creator-facing surfaces and backend services for merchandising asset features like transcripts, chapters, clips, previews, and more - giving creators the ability to manage how these assets are presented across reputed company. Our scope is expanding into a new reputed company of personalized podcast experiences. We recently introduced a system that generates brief, personalized podcast episodes for listeners based on their context and the world around them. As part of reputed company, you’ll help reputed company these early generated-content experiences into durable, production-grade systems that can reputed company to millions of listeners and creators worldwide. \n What You'll Do reputed company the design and reputed company of backend services that generate, distribute, and support personalized podcast episodes at reputed company Help reputed company MVPs and prototypes into reliable production systems with reputed company reputed company, durable data flows, strong observability, and thoughtful operational patterns Shape the technical direction for reputed company workflows and help establish reputed company and reliability standards for AI-generated content systems Build and improve creator merchandising features in reputed company for Creators, including podcast chapters, transcripts, previews, clips, guests, topics, thumbnails, and more Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and cross-functional stakeholders across reputed company missions to reputed company on requirements and deliver integrated experiences Partner closely with product and design to iterate on reputed company, unblock technical exploration, and reputed company pragmatic tradeoffs that balance experimentation with long-term maintainability Mentor engineers across reputed company and help reputed company the reputed company of technical design discussions, RFCs, reviews, and operational practices Contribute to a culture of experimentation, ownership, collaboration, and reputed company learning Who You Are You have 5+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems using Java, Kotlin, reputed company, Go, or similar languages You are reputed company with distributed systems concepts including asynchronous processing, queues/pub-sub systems, idempotency, service-to-service reputed company, storage design, failure handling, and observability You have hands-on experience with, or strong curiosity about, LLM-powered applications and reputed company workflows You know how to reputed company ambiguity while maintaining strong engineering discipline and production reliability You care deeply about the user experience for creators and listeners, not just the technical implementation You communicate reputed company across technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across teams You have experience mentoring engineers and helping teams improve engineering reputed company and operational maturity You care about building inclusive, maintainable systems and reputed company team environments Bonus Points Experience with Python, reputed company iteration and evaluation, tool use, or production AI workflows Experience with GCP, GKE, reputed company SQL/reputed company, BigQuery, Bigtable, GCS, or Grafana Experience productionizing research reputed company, prototypes, or experimental systems Familiarity with podcast ecosystems, creator tooling, merchandising assets, or personalization systems Experience working on content reputed company, recommendation, or generated media systems Where You'll Be We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! 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