Engineering Manager - Mobile Video Players

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Mexico, Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de México
Senior level
Digital Media • eCommerce • Gaming • Mobile • News + Entertainment
The world’s largest destination for anime & manga focused on creating 360° fan experiences.
The Role
As Engineering Manager for Mobile Video Players, you will lead client-side development of video playback experiences across mobile platforms, oversee the design of the next-gen video player library, mentor engineers, and drive continuous improvement in performance and reliability, while fostering a strong team culture and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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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 the Engineering Manager for the Mobile Video Players team, you will lead the client-side development of the video playback experience for our streaming application across our mobile client platforms. In addition to leading the development of the mobile playback experience, you will oversee the design, development, and optimization of our next-generation video player library. You will lead a team of experienced engineers while advocating for our core values of operational excellence, engineering quality, and effective delivery. You will establish relationships across Engineering, Program Management, and Product to guide projects and to help deliver our technology roadmap. You will join an international team of 100+ client engineers and leaders that have helped establish Crunchyroll as the leader in its space.

You will:

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers specializing in video player development. 
  • Foster a culture within the team that aligns with our core values.
  • Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with a focus on performance and career development. 
  • Oversee the design, implementation, and delivery of projects that address complex challenges in the video player domain. 
  • Ensure best practices in software development, including coding standards, peer code reviews, and documentation
  • Drive continuous improvement in video player performance and reliability.
  • Partner with product managers, designers, and other team members to define requirements and set priorities.
  • Communicate project status, challenges, and outcomes to senior management and other teams.
  • 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 Engineering Manager, you will report to the Director of Video Players. We are considering applicants for the locations of Mexico City.

About You

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

  • You are passionate about technology and the streaming space
  • You have 5+ years industry experience and 2+ years of leadership 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 an architect of front end customer-facing applications.
  • 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, or infrastructure.

About Us

The Video Player team is a growing team of 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 all major device platforms. Your contributions on this team are front and center to our millions of fans, affecting the daily success of our company.

#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Hybrid

About our Values

We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value

  • Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.

  • Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.

  • Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.

  • Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.

Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs: https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040471712-Crunchyroll-Hiring-FAQs

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Crunchyroll is the world’s largest destination for anime and manga focused on creating 360° experiences — from video to merchandise, events, and gaming — for fans to connect through the content they love.

Why Work With Us

The quality of our company is a direct result of the quality of our people, so we take the process and art of hiring very seriously. Every position we recruit against is an opportunity for us to enhance and directly impact our culture and climate, and it is a reflection of the values we uphold.

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