Principal Engineer, Client Solutions

About Crunchyroll

WE HELP EVERYONE BELONG. IT’S OUR PURPOSE.

Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.

Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!

About the role

As a Principal Software Engineer on our Client Engineering team, you will work with other engineering leaders within the Client team, and outside the client team, to help build necessary technical direction, architecture, and platform strategy on our customer-facing devices. You will bring your full stack expertise to solve challenges on mobile platforms (Apple and Android), living room platforms (Roku, FireTV, and SmartTV), and gaming platforms (Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch) . You will be an advocate for pushing our core values of excellence in operations, engineering, and delivery. You will establish relationships across Engineering, Program Management, Product, and QA to help establish our technology roadmap to meet our primary goals. You will join an international team of 100+ client engineers and leaders that have helped establish Crunchyroll as the leader in it's space.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of software in ambiguous and complex problem spaces across our client engineering platforms that have a long-term impact on product, technology and architecture.

• Help lead the definition and design of technical solutions that are noteworthy in some way (e.g. a significant refactor that simplifies or improves architectural quality, enables Crunchyroll to maintain a competitive advantage, offers extensibility, performance, scalability, or has an organization-wide influence).

• Identify major bottlenecks or existing architectural complexity that slow down or prevent innovation, pose an important business or security risk.

• Set the standard among engineers in the organization for engineering excellence.

• Participate in design reviews, improving product delivery and aligning teams across your organization towards architectural strategies.

• Bring clarity and simplicity when there is complexity

• You applying judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.

• Establish a culture with regard to our core tenets of excellence in operations, engineering, and delivery.

• Participate in the hiring and interviewing process and act as a spokesperson for the Crunchyroll engineering team.

• Keep up to date on industry trends by researching and benchmarking new technologies against other solutions in the market.

In the role of Principal Engineer - Client Solutions, you will report to the Vice President of Client Engineering.

We are considering applicants for the location(s) of San Francisco (preferred), Culver City and Dallas.

About You

We get excited about candidates, like you, because...

• You are passionate about technology and the streaming space and have 12+ years industry experience.

• You have the experience to sustain our core values of excellence in operations, delivery, and engineering.

• You have been a developer, technical leader, and architect of front end and backend applications supporting a customer facing application.

• You have developed solutions used by millions of users.

• You can demonstrate experience working with your product and program peers to help establish technology roadmaps.

• You can demonstrate experience leading technology leaders and driving important engineering programs.

• You have hands-on experience developing in multiple code stacks (mobile, web, backend, db, infrastructure.

About the Team

The "Client Engineering" team is a team of 100+ international engineers and technology leaders passionate about providing a world class streaming experience for our millions of Anime fans across the world. We provide and maintain solutions on 16+ client platforms (and growing!!!). Your contributions on this team are front and center to our millions of fans, affecting the daily success of our company.Why you will love working at Crunchyroll

Why you will love working at Crunchyroll

In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:

• Receive a great compensation package including sala