Engineering Manager, Crunchyroll
tvOS/iOS
$153-191k
Streaming service for anime and manga
Job no longer available
Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$153-191k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create experiences for anime and manga fans, and to enable them to connect through the content they love.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in developing and deploying high-quality applications
- 2+ years of leadership experience
- Proficiency with Swift/Objective-C
- Able to effectively develop processes to consistently delivery software with minimal defects and system disruptions
- Advocate for coding standard methodologies, clean and testable code
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and networking
- Proven experience as a leader capable of motivating and energizing the very best software engineers, as well as gaining their respect
- Ability to influence others with your ideas, contribute to company-wide methodologies and initiatives
What the job involves
- Take the lead: hands-on engineering management
- Provide technical vision for tvOS applications
- Be professional and encourage professionalism in teams
- Be a champion for high-quality code and reduce tech debt in cooperation with the product
- Strategic planning with product ensuring key business needs are addressed
- Oversee engineering responsibilities around product development from conception to completion
- Support development scrum process and team-building exercises
- Demonstrate consideration of project risks, cross-team impact against services and features to be developed
- Consistently evaluate processes for efficiency and refine them
- Take an active part in the hiring process
- Write technical blog posts, participate in open-source publishing of projects
- Travel occasionally to San Francisco to coordinate with product and service team partners
Our take
In recent decades, anime - encompassing Japanese, Korean, and Chinese animation 0 has transitioned from a niche interest to a formidable industry, boasting a global market worth approximately $30B. Despite this growth, distribution has historically posed challenges, with series and films often reaching overseas audiences through disparate channels, if at all. Crunchyroll emerged to address this issue by consolidating the largest collection of anime into a single streaming service.
Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll in 2021 for $1.75B expanded the platform's reach, integrating Sony's extensive animation library into its offerings. this move also positioned Crunchyroll for heightened competition against streaming giant Netflix, known for its substantial investments in anime production and acquisition. Currently, Crunchyroll maintains an unrivaled library of anime content, boasting over 44,000 episodes that have attracted over 0M paying subscribers.
While Crunchyroll initially offered a free, ad-supported tier to its vast community, it appears poised to phase out this option, transitioning to a subscription-based model for all new series. Despite this shift, the platform has implemented a global reduction in fees to stimulate subscription uptake. The success of this strategy remains to be seen, but past experiences with companies like Hulu suggest that it may drive subscription growth and mitigate piracy
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Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2010
$0.8m
EARLY VC
Feb 2008
$4.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $4.9m
Company benefits
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- Support program for new parents
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
Company HQ
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Kun Gao
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Crunchyroll in 2006 and served as CEO/General Manager/Board Member until 2018. Previously the founder and CTO of Frappr.com as well as a Product Engineer at HOT or NOT.
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