Backend Engineering Manager

Our approach to privacy

• As part of your job, you will be working on tools that process personal data relating to Yubo users.
• As a social media platform, we require our employees to have a strong awareness and understanding of privacy issues, and in particular of children's online safety, privacy and well-being.
• Every employee at Yubo is expected to participate in compliance with data protection regulations as well as the continuous improvement of our Privacy & Safety By Design measures.

Your responsibilities

• As a Backend Foundations Engineering Manager at Yubo, you will be at the heart of our technical strategy, ensuring that our engineering foundations are strong, scalable, and aligned across squads. You’ll drive the consistency and quality of our backend architecture, internal tools, and developer workflows to empower product teams to build faster and better.
• You will be responsible for leading cross-functional initiatives on key foundations topics such as observability, testing frameworks, and internal libraries, ensuring technical excellence and seamless integration across teams.
• You will proactively identify experience bottlenecks across engineering and adjacent teams, and lead improvements in internal tooling and workflows. From QA to Product, Safety to Backend, you'll help design and scale solutions that make the daily work of Yubo teams more efficient, reliable, and enjoyable.
• You will manage a distributed team of platform-minded engineers embedded across multiple squads, supporting them with clear scope, strong alignment, and a shared identity. Together, you'll drive the development of internal tools and automation that empower not just engineering, but also QA, Product, Safety, and other teams across Yubo to scale with efficiency and impact.
• As a people manager, you’ll coach your 3 team members through regular feedback, tailored development plans, and opportunities for growth, while fostering a high-trust environment where engagement and psychological safety are top priorities.
• You’ll also play a key role in recruiting and onboarding new team members, contributing to the team’s strength, diversity, and cohesion.
• Finally, you will represent your team's topics in key technical discussions with Infra, Mobile, other Backend teams, and Product stakeholders, making sure Backend Foundations members always have a common strategy when acting in their squads.

Our technical environment

• Our Stack: Node, React, TypeScript,
• On data: Couchbase, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Mongo DB
• Message broker: kafka, Nats

Who you are

• You have at least 10 years of experience with a minimum of 3 years as a manager.
• You have experience in platform, core, foundations or internal tooling topics
• You have experience in a tech-first or product-oriented company
• You have a solid backend engineering knowledge (Node.js)
• You have familiarity with developer workflows and best practices alignments
• You are experienced in working in remote environments

The recruitment process

• Phone screen with a TAM
• First interview with Head of Backend
• Technical test and debrief
• Culture Fit interviews

What we offer :

• A highly competitive salary range as well as equity in the company
• A highly flexible remote work policy, generally between 2-4 days at the office per month, with monthly team events.
• We also cover fees for external professional events and meetups (API days, etc…)
• Great health insurance coverage for both you and your family by Alan, fully paid for by Yubo !
• Numerous benefits for parents: additional parental leave, easy access to nurseries and in France.