Principal Software Engineer (Backend), Partner Engineering

About the role

Crunchyroll is growing and changing, presenting unique challenges and opportunities to support millions of anime fans around the world. The Partner Engineering team provides seamless help to our partners and internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans.

As a Partner Engineer, you'll lead deployments, optimize implementations, and handle integrations to build successful, long-term partnerships. You will own technical engagements and be the key driver in finding creative/innovative solutions that lead Crunchyroll’s experiences to the next level.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead projects that require close collaboration with other teams like Product, Engineering, Business Development, Program management, and Marketing. You'll play a key role in improving existing operations, defining and commercializing new solutions, bridging product gaps, automating partner operations, and taking new initiatives from conception to successful deployment. You will lead and develop prototypes and MVP for testing and deployment of new systems

In the role of Principal Partner Engineer, you will report to the Senior Director, Partner Engineering. We are considering applicants in the Greater London area.

About You

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

  • You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • You have 15+ years of experience as a backend software engineer with experience building robust and reliable backend services
  • You have experience in Java, GoLang, Python, PHP, Typescript or Node.js
  • You have experience with cloud technologies (API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, RDS, ECS)
  • You have experience with databases (PostgresDB/MariaDB, DynamoDB/MongoDB)
  • You enjoy working with both the business and technical stakeholders

About the Team

The Technology Partnerships team at Crunchyroll plays a pivotal role in enhancing and expanding our users' experiences. We collaborate extensively with a diverse network of device, payment, and gaming partners to broaden the reach of Crunchyroll's offerings. Our primary objective is to drive growth, open up new acquisition channels, and optimize both the scope and quality of our services. Situated at the crossroads of technology and business, we are dedicated to continually enabling experiences that delight our fans.

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:

• Take Time for You - Flexible Time Off, 6 Yasumi (Rest) paid days, half-day off Fridays during summertime, company Christmas vacation, flexible schedule, and hybrid working mode.
• Parental Leave - Paid parental leave for birthing parents and non-birthing parents.
• Find Balance - Counselling and support through Talkspace, and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is available 24/7.
• Watch hard - Free premium access to Crunchyroll along with monthly discounts to the Crunchyroll store.
• Level Up - Prepaid Udemy account, professional development courses and conferences.
• Take the prize - End-year bonus, impact award, and referral bonus.
• That's not all - Global anniversary, and birthday recognition programme.

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