Engineering Manager (Backend)

Job summary
Permanent contract
New York
Occasional remote
Salary: $200K to 250K
Experience: > 5 years
Skills & expertise
Observation skills
Collaboration and teamwork
Written and verbal communication
GoLang
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Fubo
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Job description

  • As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of backend engineers building product features and maintaining a healthy, reliable platform. This is a hands-on role. You will design, code, and review alongside your team while shaping how we build software in an AI-first engineering organization
  • Your team owns backend services that power the Fubo user experience across a microservices architecture, and supports squads across Product, Design, and Engineering. You will direct your team’s work wherever it’s most impactful, grow your engineers’ careers, and guide backend contributions from partner teams
  • You will own a team at the center of Fubo’s platform, partnering with Engineering Managers in the US, France, and India to define a shared technical vision. You will report to an Engineering Manager in NYC and work closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical plans
  • Own the success and long-term vision of the backend services layer by designing API’s that drive the frontend user experience
  • Prioritize work for your team, ensuring on-time deliverables and high-quality software
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership through system design, coding, code review, and mentorship
  • Own the health, reliability, and performance of the systems your team builds
  • Fubo is investing heavily in AI to optimize its software development process. We expect you to be hands-on and proactively discover new ways AI tools and new processes can improve speed and quality for you, your team, and the org
  • Lead recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding in partnership with Talent Acquisition
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, Design, and other teams to achieve shared goals

Benefits

  • Free Premium Fubo Account
  • Unlimited PTO days and regular company-wide activities
  • At Fubo, you will have the opportunity to personally influence what live media looks like after it goes through its next big transformation
  • Fubo is an e-verified company
  • Robust benefit package including Health/Dental/Vision coverage sponsored up to 100% for employees, 401k, Life Insurance, and commuter benefits
  • Fubo’s main Headquarters are located in Midtown Manhattan, with offices in Denver, Paris, and Bangalore
  • Health and Wellness initiatives

Preferred experience

  • Proven experience building large-scale distributed systems with SOA or microservices architecture, preferably with Golang
  • A self-driven, proactive, and curious team player with the ability to collaborate cross functionally with many different teams, with a focus on win-win solutions
  • Experience with relational databases
  • Strong verbal and written communication
  • Experience in a CI/CD environment, and with test automation strategies
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools
  • Experience with caching, circuit-breaking, distributed traces, load testing
  • 8+ years experience as a software engineer and 3+ years leading medium to large software engineering teams

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