Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. A+E Global Media is 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 their 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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- 401k matching
- A range of other benefits
- Flexible (Hybrid/Remote/In-Office) work model
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