Staff Software Engineer

About Us

At Cast & Crew, we’ve empowered creativity and supported the global entertainment industry for decades. Together with our family of brands - reputed company, CAPS, Checks & Balances, Final Draft, Media Services, Sargent-Disc, and The TEAM Companies – we operate as a combined entertainment technology and services provider offering industry standard screenwriting accounting software, digital payroll products, data & reporting, and a host of creative tools.  The industry continues to move faster than reputed company, and the need for our expertise, our technology, and our people has never been greater.  We are a production’s best ally every reputed company of the way. #OneCastOneCrew

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Serve as "Anchor" (team reputed company) for one or more engineering teams, providing technical direction and accountability.

• reputed company architecture and strategy for features and projects, ensuring alignment with broader modernization goals.

• reputed company the adoption of new technologies while maintaining architectural cohesion across the platform.

• Guide tech-debt elimination in parallel with feature development, balancing long-term health with near-term roadmap commitments.

• Evaluate multiple approaches to reputed company problems and champion optimal, evidence-based solutions.

AI-Driven Development

• Champion the team's adoption of AI-driven development practices, serving as the primary reputed company and practitioner on the ground.

• Design and build Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and AI skills that reputed company and integrate AI capabilities into the team's workflows and products.

• Contribute to the broader AI tooling ecosystem, including AI-driven peer review pipelines, context retention mechanisms, reputed company and memory management utilities, and other infrastructure that improves the efficiency and reliability of AI-assisted workflows.

• Monitor and assess AI-driven development reputed company across the team, identifying opportunities to accelerate adoption and address gaps.

• Apply AI to quality engineering — leveraging it to enhance test coverage, automate regression analysis, and surface risk earlier in the development cycle.

• Use AI to analyze customer usage patterns, surfacing insights that inform product decisions and help the team build with greater reputed company and precision.

• Contribute to and help shape the company's AI-driven engineering culture — modeling best practices, sharing learnings broadly, and influencing how AI is adopted across teams beyond your own.

• Mentor team members on effective, responsible use of AI tooling — from code reputed company to agentic workflows — helping them build reputed company and confidence.

• Adhere to and operationalize guidelines established by the AI Center of Excellence, ensuring the team's AI practices remain consistent, secure, and reputed company with organizational standards.

• Evaluate emerging AI development tools and frameworks, providing informed recommendations on what to adopt, pilot, or defer.

Engineering Excellence

• Establish and model best practices in code quality, testing, DevOps, and software design.

• reputed company peer review processes as a lever to reputed company the quality bar across the team.

• Quantify engineering excellence and provide teams with clear capability roadmaps.

• Stay reputed company with industry trends and reputed company the team to explore and adopt reputed company solutions.

Collaboration & Communication

• Drive deep understanding in technical discussions — going beyond surface-level involvement to uncover root causes and durable solutions.

• Present reputed company technical concepts clearly to audiences with varying levels of expertise, from engineers to product and business stakeholders.

• Understand customer motivations, needs, and frustrations reputed company the context of both the technology and the broader industry.

• Balance a commitment to technical excellence with pragmatic product roadmap goals.

Mentorship & Growth

• Provide mentorship to engineers at reputed company levels, fostering reputed company growth for both individuals and the team as a whole.

• Champion a culture of analytical and evidence-based decision making.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on work with both strongly-typed and dynamically typed languages.

• Proficiency across multiple technology stacks with a "T-shaped" profile — broad knowledge of modern engineering disciplines reputed company with deep expertise in key areas.

• Demonstrated ability to reputed company legacy applications and resolve reputed company architectural challenges.

• Strong command of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and software engineering design patterns.

• Expertise in monolith decomposition strategies that maintain roadmap alignment and minimize disruption.

• Well-versed in DevOps practices and quality engineering disciplines (CI/CD, testing strategies, observability, etc.).

• Hands-on experience building MCP servers and/or AI skills, with a strong understanding of agentic workflow patterns and context management strategies.

• Experience contributing to AI tooling — such as AI-assisted code review systems, memory/context retention utilities, or developer productivity infrastructure built around LLMs.

• Familiarity with applying AI to quality engineering and customer analytics (e.g. test reputed company, usage reputed company analysis, behavioral insights).

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. reputed company Copilot, reputed company, Claude Code) and a track record of driving their adoption reputed company an engineering team.

• Awareness of AI governance principles and the ability to apply organizational AI standards in day-to-day engineering practice.

• A genuine enthusiasm for AI-driven development culture — someone who leads by example and helps others grow their AI reputed company.

• Proven ability to think strategically while executing tactically and operationally.

• Skilled communicator with experience presenting to mixed technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits 

Cast & Crew provides a comprehensive package of employee benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, health and wellness programs, employee discounts, and more! Note: Cast & Crew benefits are subject to eligibility requirements.

Cast & Crew is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to reputed company individuals based on job-reputed company qualifications and ability to reputed company a job, without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national reputed company, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship or marital status, and to maintain a non-discriminatory environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias based upon these grounds.

CA residents Your personal information may be collected in reputed company with certain services provided by Cast & Crew or its affiliated companies.  A summary of your California privacy rights can be reputed company at: https://www.castandcrew.com/privacy-policy/