Engineering Manager, Backend
Required skills
- backend services
- microservices architecture
- API design
- system design
- code review
- mentorship
- health
- reliability
- performance
- Product Managers
Nice to have
- AI-first engineering organization
- AI tools
- new processes
Role summary
FuboTV is seeking an Engineering Manager for Backend to lead a team of engineers in New York City. This hybrid role involves hands-on technical leadership, including system design, coding, and code review, alongside managing and growing the team. The manager will oversee backend services within a microservices architecture, focusing on reliability, performance, and API design to power the user experience. Responsibilities include prioritizing work, leading recruitment, and collaborating with product and design teams. The role emphasizes AI integration in software development and requires 8+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years in team leadership, with a strong background in distributed systems, Golang, and cloud platforms.
About Fubo:
FuboTV Inc. is a consumer-first live TV streaming company that is defining the future of TV.
Ranked among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies (2026) and the Financial Times’ The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies (2026, 2025), FuboTV owns Hulu + Live TV (entertainment), Fubo (sports) and Molotov (entertainment and sports), which stream in markets around the globe.
Our Mission:
Our mission is to deliver premium sports, news and entertainment programming through a best-in-class user experience that offers greater choice, flexibility and value.
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, four times a week (Monday, 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.
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 Leader in NYC and work closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical plans.
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Perks & Benefits:
Fubo’s minimum base salary for this role if hired in New York City is $200,000 per year; maximum base salary for this role is $250,000 per year. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Fubo's equity plan, annual cash bonus plans, unlimited PTO, and a full range of medical benefits. The final offer amount will be at the company’s sole discretion and determined by multiple factors, including years and depth of experience and expertise, location and other business considerations.
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