Engineering Manager, Crunchyroll
Account Services
$180-225k
Plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Streaming service for anime and manga
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Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-225k
Plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually
More information about location
3 days a week in office
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
- 10+ years of experience in building cloud-native applications, with a focus on backend development and microservice architecture, 4+ years of experience as team lead or manager
- You allocate resources to maintain a balance between workload distribution and team productivity
- Experience in Typescript/Node.js or Golang; Java, Scala, or Kotlin a plus
- Experience with databases, including DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, MySQL or PostgresDB
- Extensive experience with AWS, developing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native applications in API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, ECS, S3, and DynamoDB
- Experience in CI/CD and SDLC processes, specifically with GitHub Actions, IaC(Pulumi), serverless architectures, and creating unit and integration tests
- Experience in operational excellence (on-call rotations, incident management)
- Experience in writing and evaluating clean, functional, high-quality, and testable code across various projects
- Thrive in Agile and collaborative environments, leveraging insights and expertise to develop technical solutions that resonate with our users
Desirable
- Experience in Search domain
- Familiarity with video or content management systems
- Active participation in one or more open source projects
- Experience with implementing and operating systems using event-driven architectures
What the job involves
- You will managed a team of engineers that are pioneering tools and technologies to build outstanding user experiences across more than 10 platforms for multiple brands
- You'll work closely with design, user-experience, and user-testing teams to deliver dynamic experiences
- Video is at the core of our streaming service, and we partner with other content operations, video infrastructure and client teams
- We manage metadata and ensure it is available at scale to millions of our anime fans
- This team also supports both external partners and company partners end-to-end, as content is ingested, organized and distributed within our applications and to other parties
- This position reports to the Director of Platform Engineering
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and project managers to implement new features across Product and Engineering
- Maintain cohesive relationships with Product and Program for the lifecycle of products from inception to launch
- Coordinate with multiple teams and manage dependencies where applicable
- Provide accurate project estimations, considering different factors such as team capacity, skills, and potential risks
- Work with team lead to develop a comprehensive testing pyramid
- Evaluate and plan team structure, and make resourcing and hiring decisions
- Plan, analyze, and improve to help our team growth
- Support and improve internal processes
- Collaborate with other teams within the company
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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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
Lucerne - Higuera, Culver City, CA
Leadership
Kun Gao
(Co-Founder)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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