Fubo

Software Engineer - Ad Engineering

Fubo$160K — $190K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong computer science foundation
  • Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot)
  • 3+ years delivering production-quality software
  • Expertise in microservices using Golang, Java, C++ or similar
  • Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases
  • Familiarity with modern code-deployment tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Professional experience in log/metric aggregation tools (e.g. Datadog, Splunk)

Responsibilities

  • Build and support ads engineering infrastructure and services
  • Drive improvements to reliability, performance, accuracy, and security of services
  • Solve distributed systems and data engineering problems
  • Create shared libraries and frameworks for better engineering solutions
  • Implement unit and integration tests for platform stability
  • Identify software development opportunities to enhance efficiency and visibility
  • Extract and aggregate data into data warehouses
  • Leverage AI tools for faster development without compromising quality

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence the future of live media
  • Highly competitive compensation based on experience
  • Robust benefits package including Health/Dental/Vision
  • Free Premium Fubo Account
  • Unlimited PTO and regular company-wide activities
  • Headquarters located in Midtown Manhattan with additional offices in Paris and Bangalore
Full Job Description
About the Role:

*This role is a New York City based HYBRID position. Candidates must be located in NYC, and willing to come into the office on a hybrid basis, three times a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).*

Fubo is seeking an enthusiastic Software Engineer to join our Ads Engineering team. You'll help build and scale the backend infrastructure and services that power Fubo's advertising platform - no prior ad-tech experience required, we'll ramp you up on the domain.

As an engineer on this team, you'll work on business-critical distributed systems and data problems: services that interface with ad-decisioning systems, video player vendors, ad routers, and server-side ad insertion partners. You'll help increase the reliability and observability of this infrastructure and build tooling that lets our Advertising Operations and Sales teams move fast in a complex ecosystem. Over time, you'll become one of the team's go-to experts on our ad platform and the broader ad-tech landscape - but you don't need that background to start.

This is a great opportunity for an engineer who enjoys solving backend, distributed-systems, and data engineering problems, and wants exposure to a fast-moving, high-scale domain.

What You'll Do:
  • Build and support our ads engineering infrastructure and services
  • Drive continuous improvements to the reliability, performance, accuracy, and security of services
  • Solve distributed systems engineering and data problems, utilizing the best tools and technologies
  • Build shared libraries, tools, or frameworks that improve engineering solutions
  • Implement unit and integrations tests to maintain confidence in the platform's stability
  • Identify and execute on opportunities to develop software to help increase efficiency, visibility, and performance of our ad technology
  • Extract and aggregate data from a variety of sources into data warehouses
  • Leverage AI tools across the development lifecycle - coding, testing, debugging, and documentation - to move faster without lowering our quality bar

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:
  • Strong CS foundation
  • Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) as part of your daily workflow, with the judgment to review, test, and validate AI-generated code before it ships
  • Strong software engineering and communication skills
  • 3+ years of experience delivering production-quality software
  • Expertise in building microservices in Golang, Java, C++ or similar
  • Familiarity with modern code-deployment toolchains (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases - you will be expected to ingest large datasets and make them accessible to others
  • Professional experience using modern log/metric aggregation software (e.g. Datadog, Elasticsearch + Kibana, Splunk)
  • Experience working with external stakeholders

Ideal Qualifications and Experience:
  • Deep passion for the distributed systems space and solving complex problems
  • Familiarity with microservice architectures and experience building infrastructure platforms and tools
  • Experience building with LLM APIs or agentic workflows (e.g., AI-powered internal tools, MCP integrations, automation agents)
  • Previous experience working with online advertising or previous ad-tech experience
  • Familiarity with VAST, VMAP, SSAI
  • Familiarity with video ad servers like Freewheel, Publica, or Google Ad Manager
  • Experience writing and deploying cloud-agnostic code (e.g. GCP, AWS)

Perks & Benefits:
  • At Fubo, you will have the opportunity to personally influence what live media looks like after it goes through its next big transformation
  • Fubo provides a highly competitive compensation based on experience and market standards
  • Robust benefit package including Health/Dental/Vision coverage 401k, Life Insurance, and commuter benefits
  • Free Premium Fubo Account
  • Unlimited PTO days and regular company-wide activities
  • Fubo's main headquarters are located in Midtown Manhattan, with offices in Paris, and Bangalore

Fubo's minimum base salary for this role if hired in New York City is $160,000 per year; maximum base salary for this role is $190,000 per year. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Fubo's equity plan, annual cash bonus plans, unlimited PTO, and a full range of medical benefits. The final offer amount will be at the company's sole discretion and determined by multiple factors, including years and depth of experience and expertise, and other business considerations.

About Fubo

FuboTV is an American streaming television service that focuses primarily on channels that distribute live sports, including NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and international soccer, plus news, network television series and movies. FuboTV was founded in January 2015 as a soccer streaming service and has since expanded to include general entertainment and news programming. The company is headquartered in New York City.
Learn more about Fubo
Size
600 employees
Industry
Net Income
-$57 million
Founded
2015
5 Year Trend
+50%
Revenue
$268 million
NASDAQ

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