Lead Backend Software Engineer (Product API)

Philo

Salary range

$170,000–$235,000/year

Benefits

Unlimited PTO 20w maternity

Job Description

Technical Leadership:

-Provide technical leadership to the Product API team, offering guidance on system architecture and design.

-Coach team members and mentor new hires to foster growth and development.

-Collaborate with product and client engineering teams to design and deliver performant GraphQL APIs.

API Development:

-Own and evolve critical product subsystems, including recommendations, catalog, search, and notifications.

-Build and maintain proxy and augmentation layers that integrate domain services from across the organization.

-Drive continuous improvements to the reliability, performance, and scalability of Philo's product API infrastructure.

Data and Experimentation:

-Collaborate with data science and product analytics teams to instrument the API layer for experimentation and A/B testing.

-Build and enhance observability tools to proactively monitor API performance and debug issues.

-Work with infrastructure teams to optimize database queries and implement effective caching strategies.

About Philo

Philo is building the future of television, letting subscribers watch shows on their devices with seamless playback, discovery, and sharing.

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