At Philo, we’re a group of technology and product people who set out to build the future of television, marrying the best in modern technology with the most compelling medium ever invented — in short, we’re building the TV experience that we’ve always wanted for ourselves. In practice this means leveraging cloud delivery, modern tech stacks, machine learning, and hand-crafted native app experiences on all of our platforms. We aim to deliver a rock solid experience on the streaming basics, while cooking up next generation multi-screen and multi-user playback experiences. Backend Software Engineering Manager (Video & Ads Engineering) Video is at the core of Philo and what customers engage with the most: watching their favorite shows. The Video and Ads teams are crucial for delivering on this high expectation and generating significant company revenue through advertising. The two teams share infrastructure that transcodes content and ads and stitches the two together for seamless playback. They share the goal of quality video experience because ads are an integral part of the video playback. The ad team is innovating in the programmatic ad space and with home grown systems the two teams can rapidly innovate. Philo's video streaming infrastructure is highly distributed, horizontally scalable and harnesses the power of cloud computing to deliver enough video to comprise single digit percentages of North American internet traffic. Our video pipeline, developed in-house, ingests both live and VOD content from our content partners, dynamically inserts ads into video streams using Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI), and optimally delivers them to our growing user base at exabyte scale. We use industry leading commercial and open source components in the transcode stage, paired with just-in-time packaging and our own ad stitcher that outputs unique manifests (targeting both HLS and MPEG-DASH) on a per-user, per-session basis. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead the Video and Ads Engineering teams that underpin Philo, focusing on people management, project delivery, and fostering the growth of your direct reports. While a deep technical background in video streaming or application backend systems is essential, this role emphasizes managerial responsibilities, team collaboration, and career development.