Senior Engineering Manager, Backend

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox Corporation

Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News, FOX Sports, the Fox Network, and the FOX Television Stations. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Leadership: build and lead a team of exceptional engineers adept at building distributed micro services

Technical Vision: evaluate architecture choices on an ongoing basis, in anticipation of increased scale and ever-evolving technology to meet the demands of a rapidly growing business.

Leverage technical skills to successfully drive infrastructure & tool improvements for new products and existing processes and workflows

Product Leadership: define and execute the road map by collaborating with partners in Product, Design and Operations.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

You have experience building and leading a team of exceptional engineers.

You have good ideas and can inspire the team to come up with better ideas.

You can work through ambiguous requirements and make decisions to push forward.

You have passion for building highly scalable solutions with flexibility factored in to make quick pivots as business evolves.

You have a good grasp of technologies such as Java/Go and distributed/cloud development.

You demonstrate excellent communication skills, both within the team, and across the organization.

You have 2+ years of experience growing and managing software development teams in fast-paced environments and 7+ years of software development experience