Senior 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 - Backstage, 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 ever, and the need for our expertise, our technology, and our people has never been greater.  We are a production’s best ally every step of the way. #OneCastOneCrew

Cast & Crew is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to design, build, and operate applications used daily across the entertainment production ecosystem. This is a hands-on senior role for an engineer who can lead technical initiatives end-to-end — from scoping ambiguous problems with product and design partners, through architecture and implementation, into production operation and iterative improvement.
Senior engineers in this role work across the stack — developing React-based user interfaces and Node.js backend services, integrating AI-enabled workflows, document processing pipelines, and event-driven architectures. You will act as a technical lead on substantial features or services, drive cross-team alignment on shared platforms and patterns, and be accountable for the total cost of ownership of the systems you build: the cost to develop, to run, to monitor, to change, and to retire.

Engineering Culture at Cast & Crew

At Cast & Crew, engineers own the systems they build and run. Our platforms support mission-critical workflows across the entertainment industry, where reliability, accountability, and clarity of thought matter as much as raw technical skill. We hire engineers who take responsibility for the full lifecycle of their work — design, delivery, operation, and long-term health — and who raise the bar for the people and systems around them. Senior engineers here are expected to shape technical direction, mentor peers, and work comfortably across team and organizational boundaries to move the platform forward.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated depth on customer-facing web applications at scale
• Track record of technical leadership on non-trivial initiatives — scoping, designing, and delivering systems that span multiple services or teams
• Strong experience with React frontend development, including state management, performance tuning, and component architecture for large codebases
• Strong experience with Node.js / TypeScript backend development, including API design, error handling, and service composition
• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores, including schema design, query performance, and data modeling tradeoffs
• Experience designing and operating REST and/or GraphQL APIs that are consumed by multiple clients or teams
• Experience working with event-driven architectures, including tradeoffs between synchronous, asynchronous, and event-sourced patterns
• Experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native application design
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes / EKS environments, including deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Azure DevOps
• Experience supporting production systems — on-call rotations, incident response, postmortems, and follow-through on preventative work
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools, prompt engineering, and LLM-assisted coding workflows
• Experience working with document processing systems or structured document data
• Strong written and verbal communication — able to write clear design docs, facilitate technical discussions, and explain tradeoffs to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders

Nice to Have

• Experience leading migrations, re-platforming efforts, or major refactors of production systems
• Experience with micro-frontend architectures and Module Federation
• Experience with AI agent orchestration frameworks
• Experience with distributed messaging systems (Kafka, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, etc.)
• Experience with document ingestion pipelines and OCR / extraction workflows
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms (New Relic, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
• Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and helping grow the engineering practice
• Experience partnering directly with product management, design, and security to shape roadmaps

What You Will Build

• React-based user interfaces supporting complex production workflows, with a focus on performance, accessibility, and long-term maintainability
• Node.js backend services powering event-driven applications, designed for observability and operational resilience
• APIs and services that integrate with internal and external platforms, including identity providers, data warehouses, and partner systems
• Cloud-native services running in containerized environments, with clear deployment, rollback, and disaster-recovery stories
• Features that automate and simplify real-world operational processes for production accounting, payroll, residuals, and related workflows
• Shared libraries, patterns, and tooling that raise the baseline for other engineers across the organization

What You Will Lead

• Technical leadership on substantial initiatives. Own the design, delivery, and operation of sizeable features or services. Write design docs, drive alignment, and make the calls on architecture, dependencies, and sequencing.
• Cross-team collaboration. Partner with engineers on adjacent teams — platform, data, security, infrastructure — to land changes that cross ownership boundaries. Represent your team in shared forums and technical reviews.
• Mentorship and code quality. Raise the bar through code review, pairing, and mentorship. Help mid-level engineers grow into senior work. Push back thoughtfully when designs or PRs aren't ready.
• Product and design partnership. Work directly with PM and design on scoping, tradeoffs, and sequencing. Translate ambiguous product goals into concrete technical plans. Push back on scope when needed and propose alternatives when the original approach is too costly.
• Operational ownership. Participate in on-call, drive incident response, and lead blameless postmortems. Close the loop on operational issues by turning findings into engineering work.
• Total cost of ownership. Weigh the full lifecycle cost of technical decisions — not just time-to-first-deploy, but the cost to run, monitor, secure, change, and eventually retire a system. Favor solutions that stay cheap over their full life.

What Success Looks Like

• Reliable applications that perform consistently in production — measured in SLOs met, incidents prevented, and time-to-recovery when things do break
• Features delivered at a predictable cadence without sacrificing quality, stability, or the health of the underlying codebase
• Clean, maintainable code that other engineers can pick up, extend, and operate without tribal knowledge
• Platform-level improvements — shared components, patterns, or infrastructure that make the next ten features cheaper to build
• Engineers growing around you — mid-level teammates taking on more, design docs getting sharper, reviews getting more substantive
• Cross-team trust — peers on other teams know they can bring you into a hard technical conversation and get a thoughtful, honest answer
• Systems whose total cost of ownership trends down over time — less operational toil, fewer surprise costs, easier to change a year from now than it was at launch

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 all individuals based on job-related qualifications and ability to perform a job, without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, 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.

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Compensation is commensurate with various factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, qualifications, skills, training, licensure, certifications, geographic cost of labor, and other business and organizational needs. Compensation range for candidates in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. The compensation range for this position is: $130,000.00 - $170,000.00 per year.