Engineering Manager , Backend

About the Role

This role is a New York City based HYBRID position. Candidates must be located in NYC, and willing to come into the office on a hybrid basis, three times a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).

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.

Responsibilities

• Own the success and long-term vision of the backend services layer by designing APIs 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
• Proactively discover new ways AI tools and processes can improve speed and quality for your team and the organization
• Lead recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding in partnership with Talent Acquisition
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Design, and other teams to achieve shared goals

Requirements

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

Tech Stack

• Go/Golang
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Google Cloud Platform
• Datadog