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Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!
Crunchyroll is scaling globally, creating unique challenges and exciting opportunities to delight millions of anime fans worldwide. The Partner Engineering team works with our growing network of partners and internal teams to ensure an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans.
As a Senior Partner Engineer, you'll lead strategic technical integrations, optimize deployment processes, and collaborate with key partners to deliver outstanding user experiences. You'll act as the technical point of contact for our partners, driving innovation and solving complex challenges with scalable, forward-thinking solutions.
In this high-impact role, you will specifically be working with a core partner, based in Japan, developing a new global product offering. This role will allow you to showcase a wide range of skills far beyond just technical expertise. It is important that you speak Japanese and English fluently, you have a strong product mindset and can work independently across different teams and geographies. We are looking for someone with a strong engineering background but do not expect there to be a significant amount of hands on coding.
You’ll be pivotal in cross-functional work involving Product, Engineering, Editorial, Operations, Program Management, and Marketing.
Key areas of responsibility will include:
You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, Partner Engineering and must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is a hybrid role with 3 days in the office.
We’re excited about candidates who bring:
The Partner Engineering team at Crunchyroll plays a pivotal role in enhancing and expanding our users' experiences. We collaborate extensively with a diverse network of partners to integrate, test, deploy, and improve the Crunchyroll streaming application, content discovery APIs, and billing integration APIs over the entire device lifecycle using Crunchyroll tools and data.
We're focused on:
Situated at the crossroads of technology and business, we are dedicated to continually enabling experiences that delight anime fans across the globe.
In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:
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