Most recent job postings at Funimation
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Funimation is looking for a Director of Mobile Engineering to join our growing Engineering and technology team. This position plays a key role in the management of all the front-end mobile, console, & TV applications helping to architect, define and design high quality digital experiences for our customers on our Apps. This is a hands on role that will help shape the future of our mobile... streaming application products across iOS, Android, TV & Funimation is looking for a Director of Mobile Engineering to join our growing Engineering and technology team. This position plays a key role in the management of all the front-end mobile, console, & TV applications helping to architect, define and design high quality digital experiences for our customers on our Apps. This is a hands on role that will help shape the future of our mobile... streaming application products across iOS, Android, TV & Console apps and Android. Our ideal candidate will have experience building and leading mobile engineering teams across multiple platforms, as well as best practices of the mobile ecosystem.

As our Director of Mobile Engineering you have the technical chops to lead our engineering organization and the ability to roll up your sleeves solve the technology challenges with the best and brightest in the organization. You have a passion for engineering and a proven track record of creating extensible architectures and solid designs that withstand the test of time. You lead your teams by example, mentorship and charisma to do what it takes to get things done and make a difference. You’ll work closely with the Product organization to contribute to product strategy and participate in company level prioritization.

Responsibilities:

Lead and execute Funimation’s streaming platform vision on mobile apps in partnership with product management.

Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an agile environment.

Directly manage and mentor a team of engineers as well as working with outside vendors to boost our delivery capability, whether in-house, off-shore, or third-party.

Lead the development technical product strategies designed to partner with business and product needs to grow the business and compete in a highly competitive marketplace

Ensure development of extensible architectures and solid technical designs

Serve as the most senior Mobile application technical resource / stakeholder in any setting, internal or external.

Provide front end technical guidance across functions (i.e. the feasibility of a new feature to our UX team, or an estimate of how long a feature would take to implement to a PM).

Stay current on the latest mobile app technologies and inspire your team to do the same.

Lead the app development team ensuring all efforts are adhere to industry standard and internally defined best practices

Define best practices for all mobile/console/TV app deployment and architecture

Evaluate/Audit/enforce that all front-end development work (whether conducted internally or by external suppliers) adheres to adhere to industry standard and internally defined best practices

Requirements:

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or five years of applicable experience, especially with Video, high-volume platform/software environments and platform development in a media/entertainment-related role

10+ years of industry experience including software development, product development, and a min. of 5+ years in team management

Strong familiarity or hands-on experience with OO development across multiple consumer platforms (web, mobile, connected TV, games consoles, VR)

Leadership experience should include building and leading a world-class team of engineers

Proven capabilities managing and working with global and/or geographically dispersed technical teams

Significant track record leading high-performing mobile engineers and teams

Proven track record of delivering high-quality mobile applications at scale, on schedule

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences

Communicating well with executives and non-technical leaders

Experience with enforcing best practices, tuning engineering process, TDD, code reviews, and CI

Experience in end-to-end media workflows for linear and non-linear is highly desirable
• Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.
• Sony Pictures - CA - Culver City Area & Studios

Funimation focuses on Video on Demand, Ott, Animation, and Media Streaming. Their company has offices in Los Angeles and Dallas. They have a mid-size team that's between 51-200 employees.

You can view their website at https://www.funimation.com/ or find them on LinkedIn
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via AngelList schedule_type: Full-time
Funimation is looking for a Backend Engineering Manager to join our growing Engineering and technology team. We are looking for an intrepid problem-solver to dive into an ambiguous problem space and design and deliver innovative software solutions, and to collaborate with cross-functional teams. You will work alongside product management, design, and marketing to define and build solutions fans... love. You will be responsible for building and leading Funimation is looking for a Backend Engineering Manager to join our growing Engineering and technology team. We are looking for an intrepid problem-solver to dive into an ambiguous problem space and design and deliver innovative software solutions, and to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

You will work alongside product management, design, and marketing to define and build solutions fans... love. You will be responsible for building and leading a team of engineers to architect, design, and develop cutting edge technologies. This leader will work with senior engineers and other leaders to solve difficult technical problems.

The ideal candidate will have an established background developing service architectures. This person must also be a strong leader and an excellent communicator who can articulate technical design tradeoffs with senior technical leaders.

Responsibilities:

Work closely with software engineers and other engineering managers to architect, develop and deliver the best solutions.

Manage team to scale distributed systems, make architectural trade-offs, review code, and deliver with speed and quality.

Contribute to building scalable, high-performing tech infrastructure

Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies.

Collaborate with Product and Program Managers to develop a long-term roadmap with achievable estimates; ensuring software engineering priorities are included within the roadmap.

Coordinate and administer assignments, monitor team progress, and maintain schedules.

Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an agile environment. Directly manage and mentor a team of engineers as well as working with outside vendors to boost our delivery capability, whether in-house, off-shore, or third-party.

Ensure development of extensible architectures and solid technical designs

When needed, analyze modifications necessary to the Funimation’s current architecture triggered by changes in business requirements, processes, or technical requirements, develop options to incorporate the changes and take/facilitate the appropriate decisions.

Evaluate and have a firm understanding of emerging technologies and trends for high performance distributed computing within cloud infrastructures

Provide guidance on the full life cycle of cloud based solutions including tools, technologies, and best practices for development, deployment, and maintenance of cloud hosted services

Provide expertise for teams in all matters related to deployment, building and release process.

Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives where needed.

May serve as architect or project lead in course of large or complex project.

Manage a team of product engineers into a highly performing engineering product team.

Mentor and grow engineers. Have a vested interest in their direct report’s long-term career and life goals and help them manage plans to reach those goals

Help shape a cultural high bar for security, performance, reliability, and maintainability of software

Likes working at a fast pace, is self-directed, and able to manage multiple concurrent competing challenges, issues and priorities

The minimum qualifications & requirements for this position include:

10+ Years of experience in software development.

The candidate must have exceptional technical skills with implementation as well as architecture and integration.

Good understanding of architecture and design patterns

Experience in end-to-end media workflows for linear and non-linear is highly desirable

Good understanding of platform interoperability strategies, risks and challenges

Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS

Expert knowledge of designing and developing web applications and API’s using Microsoft.NET or LAMP technology stack

Technical degree required; Computer Science or Math background highly desired

Ability to work with others: You have excellent interpersonal skills. You’re a good listener.

Strong communication skills: You are articulate and persuasive while able to listen and incorporate the perspectives of others.

Work ethic: You do what it takes to make a launch go well, which involves working with technical operations, product support, product marketing, merchandising, and communicating directly with our community. You are equally comfortable taking personal ownership for a task as delegating it.

Creativity: You love to solve problems large and small.
• Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.
• Sony Pictures - CA - Culver City Area & Studios

Funimation focuses on Video on Demand, Ott, Animation, and Media Streaming. Their company has offices in Los Angeles and Dallas. They have a mid-size team that's between 51-200 employees.

You can view their website at https://www.funimation.com/ or find them on LinkedIn
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via Indeed schedule_type: Full-time
Responsibilities: • * Provide Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) technology expertise for solution design and technical implementation. • Proficiency in industry-standard technologies, such as Web Services, JSON, and XML... • Experience with MVC and Object-Oriented Programming concepts • knowledge of client-side technologies: JavaScript / jQuery / HTML/ ISML / CSS • Experience with server-side scripting language: Node.js • Working knowledge Responsibilities:
• * Provide Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) technology expertise for solution design and technical implementation.
• Proficiency in industry-standard technologies, such as Web Services, JSON, and XML...
• Experience with MVC and Object-Oriented Programming concepts
• knowledge of client-side technologies: JavaScript / jQuery / HTML/ ISML / CSS
• Experience with server-side scripting language: Node.js
• Working knowledge of version control systems (Git)
• Experience in writing effective code with automated tests.
• Expertly performs design and development of third-party (backend) integrations like Address/Shipping/Tax validation, Payment authorization, CRM, OMS.

Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science-related field or equivalent combination of education.
• At least 3-5 years of professional web development e-commerce experience
• Salesforce Commerce Cloud/Demandware experience is a plus
• Enthusiasm for web development and staying up to date with new technologies and standards
• Ability to work with a remote team and contractors.
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and different approaches to it
• Demonstrated ability to document code as needed
• Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team
• Self-driven and motivated

Preferred, But Not Required
• SFCC (B2C Commerce Developer or B2C Commerce Architect) certification
• Knowledge of Marketing Cloud is a plus
• Knowledge of OMS, ERP systems
• Experience with Jira, confluence
• Working in an Agile environment
• Love for Anime

Funimation offers competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, life, short & long-term disability, 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement and ongoing employee development.

Funimation is an Equal Opportunity Employer
• Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift

Work Location:
• One location

Work Remotely:
• Temporarily due to COVID-19

Work Location: In person
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