About the role

Role overview

Lead Backend Software Engineer for the Product API team at Philo. The Product API powers most non-media interactions in the app, including show catalog access, search, recommendations, and platform integrations across web, mobile, and connected TV.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for the Product API team: architecture input, design tradeoffs, coaching, and mentoring.
Collaborate with product and client engineering teams to design and deliver GraphQL APIs for rich, performant user experiences.
Own and evolve key backend subsystems such as:
- Recommendations
- Catalog
- Search
- In-app notifications
- User preferences
- Viewing history
- Collections
- Experiments
- Feature flags
Build and maintain proxy/augmentation layers that integrate domain services.
Drive reliability using observability, coordinate cross-team delivery, and support platform stability and clear API contracts.
Lead by example by shipping features, triaging bugs, and managing releases to advocate for code quality.

Requirements

Deep experience building scalable APIs, services, and platform infrastructure.
Strong capability to drive architecture and reliability with observability.
Experience designing platform integrations and supporting many different clients.

Nice-to-haves (implied by the description)

Experience with GraphQL-based frameworks and dynamic client experiences.
Familiarity with experimentation systems and feature-flag-driven delivery.
Experience with security and privacy considerations at scale.

About Philo

Philo is a television technology company building a TV experience that enables seamless playback, show discovery, and effortless sharing across devices. It operates product teams focused on scalable platforms and personalized streaming experiences for millions of users.

Lead Backend Software Engineer (Product API)

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