Cast & Crew ยท 2 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer
New York, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$130K/yr - $190K/yr
8+ years expCast & Crew is a provider of entertainment technology and services in the global entertainment industry. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and optimize user-focused products for the film industry, leading feature development and collaborating with teams to enhance product capabilities.
AccountingBookkeeping and PayrollSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead feature development while managing timelines and stakeholder expectations
Collaborate with designers and product developers to conceptualize and build new features end-to-end
Design, write and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby and JavaScript code
Establish processes to ensure maintainability of new code; upgrade old code to new standards via refactor and replacement
Write automated tests to ensure proper code coverage for new features
Plan, develop, upgrade, and maintain current and future infrastructure and frameworks
Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues while coordinating with the Support team to deliver the best possible user experience
Monitor system instrumentation to optimize performance
Investigate and implement new web development technologies and best practices, as applicable
Identify any bottlenecks or bugs in the system and devise solutions
Work in a collaborative environment where you will need to coordinate with and mentor other team members and department
Qualification
Required
Demonstrated prior experience leading feature development (delegating, code reviews, overseeing projects to completion) and shipping software in a professional team setting
Strong project management skills; ability to create timelines, prioritize tasks, and communicate with stakeholders
Familiarity with project management software such as JIRA to manage tasks and coordinate with others
8+ years of experience working with Ruby on Rails
Demonstrated ability to create and improve well-architected, readable code that conforms to established best practices and RESTful principles
Deep knowledge of the standard Ruby library
Experience upgrading Ruby on Rails (RoR) between major versions
4+ years of experience using ReactJS or a comparable frontend framework for building user forms and interactions
Knowledge of responsive styling using CSS and preprocessors like SCSS and SASS
Experience with ElasticSearch and full-text indexing of content
Experience with caching solutions such as Memcached and Redis
Experience integrating with third-party payment solutions such as Stripe, PayPal, and Dwolla
Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, including security and deployment best practices, EC2, S3, RDS, Elasticache, Elastic Transcoder, and OpenSearch
Experience managing Linux servers from 'fresh install' to 'running production stable'; ability to provision systems using Ansible and comfortable with command-line tools
Experience monitoring and managing the WAF firewall and network optimization through Cloudflare
Experience creating small utilities through AWS lambda or Cloudflare workers
Ability to implement automated testing of your code, particularly integration testing via Selenium / Capybara
Competency working with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and experience designing database schema, particularly in relation to Ruby on Rails / ActiveRecord
Familiarity working with mass email systems such as Sendgrid
Experience writing both client and server side (Node.js) Javascript
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
PTO
Health and wellness programs
Employee discounts
And more!
Company
Cast & Crew
Cast & Crew began modestly as a small business that provided payroll services to the commercial and the music business.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Cast & Crew has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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2025 (6)
2024 (2)
2023 (3)
2022 (7)
2021 (5)
2020 (11)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Veronis Suhler Stevenson
2018-12-10Acquired
2013-02-05Private Equity
Leadership Team
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Sally Knutson
CFO
Recent News
2025-11-26
The Hollywood Reporter
2025-10-03
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