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About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Backend Services to lead a software engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating a collection of GraphQL and REST APIs. This role combines technical leadership with people management, ensuring high-quality backend services that power our portfolio of consumer-facing applications and experiences.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable GraphQL services and RESTful APIs.
- Define and enforce API standards, schema design best practices, and versioning strategies.
- Drive decisions around backend frameworks, tooling, infrastructure, and observability.
- Ensure systems are secure, performant, resilient, and maintainable.
- Oversee API lifecycle management, including documentation, testing, monitoring, and deprecation.
- Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing backend engineering team.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Product, Client Engineering, DevOps, Research, and Architecture teams to deliver aligned solutions.
- Own roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution for backend services.
- Establish engineering best practices for code quality, CI/CD, testing, and deployment.
- Manage technical debt proactively while balancing feature development.
- Drive observability, logging, metrics, and performance monitoring standards.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis for backend services.
- Implement reliability practices such as SLIs/SLOs and capacity planning.
- Ensure compliance with security and data governance standards.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
- 2+ years of engineering management experience leading software teams.
- Strong experience designing and building GraphQL servers (e.g., Apollo, Hasura, or similar).
- Strong experience building RESTful APIs at scale.
- Deep knowledge of API design principles, schema modeling, and optimization.
- Experience with modern backend frameworks using Node.js or comparable.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes, Pulumi, or similar).
- Strong understanding of database technologies (SQL and/or NoSQL).
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience leveraging AI-powered coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar) to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and development workflows.
- Experience building federated GraphQL architectures.
- Experience integrating with payment and subscription services (Stripe, PayPal, Recurly, etc.) or similar critical transactional systems.
- Experience integrating with SaaS Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) platforms (Auth0, Cognito, LoginRadius, etc.).
- Experience implementing API gateways and service meshes.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka, SNS/SQS, etc.).
- Experience with microservices and domain-driven design.
- Experience with in-app purchase platforms (Apple App Store, Roku Pay, etc.).
- Background in media, streaming, content platforms, or high-scale consumer applications.
- Balances technical depth with people leadership.
- Makes pragmatic architectural decisions.
- Drives clarity and accountability.
- Comfortable making tradeoffs under ambiguity.
- Invests in growing engineers into stronger technical contributors and future leaders.
Skills
- GraphQL
- RESTful APIs
- API Design
- Node.js
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Pulumi
- SQL
- NoSQL
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude Code
- Federated GraphQL
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Recurly
- Auth0
- Cognito
- LoginRadius
- API Gateways
- Service Meshes
- Kafka
- SNS/SQS
- Microservices
- Domain-Driven Design
- Apple App Store
- Roku Pay
Location
- New York City
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Stamford, CT
- Remote (California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming)
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Full-time in office
Experience Level
- Senior
- Manager
Salary/Compensations
- $179,487 - $210,000
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- 401k matching
About the Company
- A+E Global Media is a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.
Equal Opportunity
- A+E Global Media proudly provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants, and makes employment decisions consistent with this principle. The company’s employment actions and decisions – including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, demotion, compensation, transfer, layoff, and termination – are made without regard to an employee’s race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin, ancestry, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, alienage or citizenship status, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, family and medical leave status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.