Senior Manager, Backend Services

Hearst Networks EMEA

Senior Manager leading backend services engineering for A+E's technology team. Overseeing development of GraphQL and REST APIs and managing engineering teams.

Posted 7/22/2026full-timeNew York City • California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $179,487 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading backend engineering teams, designing scalable GraphQL services and RESTful APIs, and implementing best practices for API management and system observability. Proficient in cloud-native architectures and modern backend frameworks, ensuring high performance, security, and maintainability.

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GraphQL Server DesignRESTful API DevelopmentBackend Frameworks (Node.js)CI/CD PipelinesCloud-Native Architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure)

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Hard Skills

GraphQLRESTful APIsAPI Design PrinciplesSchema ModelingNode.jsCI/CDDockerKubernetesSQLNoSQL

Soft Skills

CommunicationCollaborationMentoringOwnershipAccountability

Tools & Technologies

ApolloHasuraGitHub CopilotClaude CodePulumi

Industry Keywords

API StandardsObservabilityTechnical Debt ManagementSecurity ComplianceData Governance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApolloAWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsNoSQLSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

healthcare coverage
401k matching
a range of other benefits