The Pokémon Company International (TPCi), a subsidiary of The Pokémon Company in Japan, manages the property outside of Asia and is responsible for brand management, licensing, marketing, the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the animated TV series, home entertainment, and the official Pokémon website. Pokémon was launched in Japan in 1996 and today is one of the most popular children’s entertainment properties in the world. We’re headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with an office in London, United Kingdom. Along with the opportunity to join a passionate global team, we offer exciting benefits for employees including comprehensive health and well-being benefits, paid time off, competitive compensation, and much more!

Pokemon

Sr. Manager, Platform Architect for E-Commerce and Vending Machines

Backend Software Development Engineer

Global Print Producer

Frontend Software Development Engineer

Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst

Manager, Influencer Marketing

Bilingual Project Manager (Japanese/English) - Games

Sr. Tax Manager – Transfer Pricing

Automated Retail Technical Operations Engineer

The Sr. Manager, Platform Architect for E-Commerce and Vending Machines is a senior technology leader responsible for defining the technical vision and managing the execution strategy for an integrated commerce ecosystem. This includes both online retail platforms and automated physical vending solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in scalable architecture and strong leadership capabilities to align technology initiatives with business goals, delivering a seamless Direct-to-Consumer experience.

Sr. State & Local Tax Manager

<h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Get to know the role</h2><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Job Summary:</li></ul>The Sr. Manager, Platform Architect for E-Commerce and Vending Machines is a senior technology leader responsible for defining the technical vision and managing the execution strategy for an integrated commerce ecosystem. This includes both online retail platforms and automated physical vending solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in scalable architecture and strong leadership capabilities to align technology initiatives with business goals, delivering a seamless Direct-to-Consumer experience.<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">FLSA Classification (US Only): Exempt</li><li class="leading-relaxed">People Manager: Yes</li></ul><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">What you’ll do</h2>Strategic Planning & Vision<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Define and maintain the architecture roadmap for e-commerce (web/mobile) and vending machine platforms.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Ensure alignment with business objectives, scalability, and long-term growth strategies.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Drive the evolution toward unified commerce components, when reasonable, ensuring seamless customer experiences across online, physical, and emerging channels (e.g., Vending, Digital Commerce, Physical Stores)</li></ul>System Design & Integration<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Architect and oversee integration of core systems including e-commerce platforms, payment gateways, ERP integrations, inventory management via an OMS, and vending machine backend systems.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Enable real-time inventory tracking, remote device management, integrated front-end experience to E-commerce CMS, and secure payment processing.</li></ul>Technical Leadership & Team Management<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Lead and mentor a team of solution architects and engineers.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Directly manage People Managers, providing mentorship, performance management, and career development support.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and accountability.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Serve as a technical escalation point for complex design and implementation decisions.</li></ul>Scalability, Performance, & Security<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Ensure platforms are highly available, scalable, and optimized for high transaction volumes.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Enforce compliance with enterprise-grade security standards and data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).</li></ul>Technology Evaluation & Adoption<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Conduct build-vs-buy analyses to select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and third-party integrations.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Prevent technology sprawl while promoting modular, maintainable solutions.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Leverage cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices, APIs, and containerization.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Manage relationships with technology vendors and service partners, ensuring alignment with business needs and maximizing value from third-party solutions.</li></ul>Cross-Functional Collaboration<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Partner with product, engineering, data, security, marketing, and operations teams.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Translate business requirements into robust technical solutions that support a consistent omnichannel experience.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Champion change management initiatives, influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to adopt new technologies and processes.</li></ul>Troubleshooting & Optimization<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and technical issues.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Use analytics and data insights to drive continuous platform improvements.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Lead the adoption of advanced analytics and data-driven decision-making, leveraging insights to optimize platform performance, customer engagement, and business outcomes.</li></ul><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">What you’ll bring</h2><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Ten (10) years of relevant professional experience or a demonstrated equivalent level of expertise, plus a minimum of three (3) years, preferably five (5), of people management experience.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field preferred or demonstrated equivalent expertise.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Proven track record of leading technical teams and delivering complex, scalable solutions.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Ability to travel up to 4 times per year domestically and internationally.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Technical Expertise:</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Deep knowledge of e-commerce platforms (Elastic Path, Salesforce, Magento, Oracle Commerce Clout).</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Proficiency in cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Modern headless commerce architectures (e.g., Elastic Path, Composable Commerce).</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Integration with IoT devices and real-time telemetry.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">API-first and event-driven design patterns.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, and Node.js.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Solid understanding of networking, security protocols, and payment systems.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience leading technology integration during organizational mergers or platform consolidations is highly desirable.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Leadership & Communication:</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Exceptional ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence technology strategy.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Skilled in stakeholder management and translating technical concepts into business value.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Mindset:</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Engineering-driven approach with a passion for continuous improvement.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Ability to bring structure, and clarity to complex, distributed systems.</li></ul><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">How you’ll be successful</h2><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Passion for Pokémon: Develops an understanding of the Pokémon brand, the impact it has on our people, culture, business, fans, and communities, and applying that knowledge and passion to everything you do.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Challenging the Expected: Approaches challenges with curiosity and creativity, embracing the possibility of failure as an opportunity to learn something new, develop innovative ideas, solve complex problems and identify unique opportunities.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Integrity and Respect: Demonstrates integrity and respect by leading with empathy, listening to others, seeking out different perspectives, and taking personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and results.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Dedicated to Quality: Takes ownership to maintain and promote high standards, looks for new ways to learn and improve, and embraces a growth mindset to seek and apply feedback from others in an effort to continuously improve.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Building Relationships: Develops and strengthens relationships, adopting a “team first” mentality and working collaboratively to solve problems and meet shared goals.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Delighting Customers: Listens and understands the interests and needs of our customers and stakeholders, making them feel heard and important, and embracing these learnings to continue delivering a unique Pokémon experience.</li></ul><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">What to expect</h2><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">An innovative culture driven by impact, delivering meaningful outcomes.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Company events that celebrate the spirit of Pokémon.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Competitive cash-based compensation programs.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for you.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Generous paid family leave.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Employer-paid life insurance.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Employer-paid long and short-term income protection insurance.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">US Employees: 401k Employer Matching.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">UK/IRE/MX Employees: Pension Employer Contributions.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Fitness reimbursement.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Commuter benefit.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">LinkedIn learning.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Comprehensive relocation package for certain roles.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Hybrid work environment.</li></ul>The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this role. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. For roles in the United Kingdom, candidates will need the right to work. In some cases, and for some roles, the Company may be able to arrange a visa. For roles in Ireland, this role requires candidates to have the right to live and work in the Republic of Ireland. However, we welcome applications from all nationalities and may consider supporting an employment permit application, in appropriate and suitable cases.The Pokémon Company International is committed to the inclusion of all qualified applicants for consideration in our job application process. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview, or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at <a href="mailto:accommodationrequestta@pokemon.com" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">accommodationrequest_ta@pokemon.com</a>.

Rockstar Jobs

EA Jobs

Playstation Jobs

Ubisoft Jobs

Epic Game Jobs

Riot Jobs

CDPR Jobs

Krafton Jobs

Twitch Jobs

Larian Jobs

Wargaming Jobs

Naughty Dog Jobs

Netflix Jobs

Supercell Jobs

Zynga Jobs

Test your Unity Animations knowledge with this quiz! Explore concepts like Animator Controller, Blend Trees, and many more.

Test your Unity UI knowledge with this quiz! Explore essential concepts like Canvas, EventSystem and many more. 

Challenge yourself with this Unity Input System quiz! Test your skills in input mapping, device handling, and action events.

Take your Unity skills to the next level with Part 3 of this quiz, covering scripting, physics, rendering, and performance optimization!

Test your Unity expertise with this quiz, covering initialization to advanced rendering and physics!

Test your Unity knowledge with this comprehensive quiz, covering everything from MonoBehaviour basics to advanced physics, rendering, and optimization techniques across multiple difficulty levels!

Assess your knowledge of Unity's Rigidbody component and its advanced physics interactions with this in-depth quiz!

Test your understanding of Unity’s Physics, Movement, and MonoBehaviour with this insightful beginner-friendly quiz!

Dive into the fundamentals of open-world game development in Unity with this beginner-friendly quiz.

Challenge yourself with this beginner-friendly quiz on building an endless runner in Unity!

Test your beginner-level knowledge of Unity platformer development with this engaging quiz.

Test your basic knowledge of Unity and Unreal Engine with this beginner-friendly quiz on game development fundamentals.

This assessment evaluates your understanding of Unity's component-based architecture, how GameObjects and their components interact, the hierarchy system with nested GameObjects, and how to reference them in scripts.

This assessment evaluates your understanding of Unity's NavMesh system, including navigation baking, NavMeshAgents, pathfinding, obstacles, and scripting interactions with NavMesh to create AI-driven movement.

An assessment to test the correct usage of Unity's events and lifecycle functions in the context of the game "Clash Royale"

- This assessment gives us an idea of your C++ skills - Companies that evaluate this skillset in interviews: Rockstar Games, Ubisoft, Mayhem Studios, etc. - 10 Multiple Choice questions - Average time to complete: 7 to 10 minutes

Let's assess your Data Structures! 📋 &nbsp;- This assessment gives us an idea of your problem solving skills using DSA - Companies that evaluate this skillset in interviews: MPL, LILA Games, GSN Games, etc. - 10 Multiple Choice questions - Average time to complete: 7 to 10 minutes

Let's assess your Programming Patterns! 📋- This assessment gives us an idea of your code architecture skills - Companies that evaluate this skillset in interviews: Dirtcube, PTW, Playshifu, etc. - 10 Multiple Choice questions - Average time to complete: 7 to 10 minutes

Let's assess your OOPs skills! 📋- This assessment gives us an idea of your fundamental OOPS concepts and Solid principles skills - Companies that evaluate this skillset in interviews: Hitwicket, GSN Games, Tomo Club, etc. - 10 Multiple Choice questions - Average time to complete: 7 to 10 minutes

Let's assess your Unity Skills 📋 - This assessment gives us an idea of your Unity fundamentals - Companies you can apply for after taking this assessment: Godspeed games, Salvation Games, nCore Games, etc. - 9 questions: 9 Multiple Choice - Minimum score needed to qualify: 80% - Average time to complete: 5 to 10 minutes

seeking alpha

Data Engineering Team Leader

Agoda

Pay In Senior Analyst (B2B)

ShareFile

Renewal Account Manager

Bristol Myers Squibb

IO Account Executive

Senior Account Executive, MAVA

The New York Times

Reporter, California

Senior Video Journalist, Podcast Video - Hard Fork

Accounting Assistant

Assurance - Centre of Innovation and Technology (CIT) - Senior Associate

Seeking Alpha is looking for a hands-on Data Engineering Team Leader to lead the real-time data domain. This role involves evolving the data platform towards stability, quality, and scale, maintaining and extending event processing infrastructure, and adding real-time capabilities for analytics and data-driven decision-making. The leader will also focus on improving data quality, developer experience, and modern table formats, while mentoring a team of data engineers.

Seeking Alpha is the world’s largest investing community. Powered by the wisdom and diversity of crowdsourcing - millions of passionate investors connect daily to discover and share new investing ideas, discuss the latest news, debate the merits of stocks, utilize the tools we create, and make informed investment decisions. 20 million people use Seeking Alpha every month. Available on mobile, tablet, or desktop,Seeking Alpha provides a work environment that promotes employee growth and development. We are searching for individuals who want to grow with the company and will strive to improve performance. If you are driven, personable, and energetic, there will be additional opportunities for you here at SA!

Back-End Developer

Financial News Editor

Senior Back-End Developer

Affiliate/ Partnerships Manager

Front-End Developer

Financial Editor

Financial QA Editor

Partnerships Manager

<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Description</h3>Join a Company That Invests in YouSeeking Alpha is the world’s leading community of engaged investors. We’re the go-to destination for investors looking for actionable stock market opinions, real-time market analysis, and unique financial insights. At the same time, we’re also dedicated to creating a workplace where our team thrives. We’re passionate about fostering a flexible, balanced environment with remote work options and an array of perks that make a real difference.Here, your growth matters. We prioritize your development through ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities, helping you reach new milestones. Join Seeking Alpha to be part of a company that values your unique journey, supports your success, and champions both your personal well-being and professional goals.What We're Looking ForWe are seeking a hands-on Data Engineering Team Leader to oversee our real-time data domain and lead the evolution of our data platform as it transitions from a heavy build-out to stability, quality, and scale.This role is responsible for maintaining, hardening, and extending our event processing infrastructure, focusing on adding targeted real-time processing capabilities to support analytics and informed decision-making. At Seeking Alpha, our decisions are deeply data-driven. This critical role is centered on maintaining, hardening, and extending our event processing infrastructure, with a primary focus on adding targeted real-time processing capabilities. Your work will directly support our analytics and enable informed, data-driven business decision-making based on production data. Specifically, you will be responsible for the core data component of capturing the clickstream events from the website, which is the foundational functionality for all our analytics.Looking forward, this role will help lead the team into its next phase: improving data quality and developer experience, investing in modern table formats (Iceberg), empowering analysts and data scientists, and continuously reducing cost and operational friction.This is a player–coach role, combining hands-on technical leadership with ownership, prioritization, and mentorship.<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">What You'll Do</h3>Own the end-to-end real-time and event data domain, including ingestion, processing, and downstream consumption.<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Ensure stability, correctness, and observability of existing streaming and near-real-time pipelines.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Lead the design and implementation of select real-time processing components to support analytics and decision-making use cases.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Define clear ownership, SLAs, and best practices for event data usage across the company.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Lead the team’s investment in modern data infrastructure</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Drive architectural decisions with a long-term view on maintainability, cost, and scalability.</li></ul>Team Leadership & Execution<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Lead, mentor, and support a team of data engineers; set technical standards and review designs and code.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Act as a hands-on contributor in critical areas of the system.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Own planning and prioritization, balancing new investments with platform stability and technical debt.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Promote a culture of quality, documentation, and operational excellence.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Partner with Data Analytics and Data Science teams to improve data accessibility, trust, and self-service capabilities.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Improve observability across the data platform (data quality, freshness, lineage, failures).</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Explore and adopt AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering velocity and code quality.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Stay current with emerging technologies in data engineering and analytics, and evaluate their relevance to the platform.</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Requirements</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">7+ years of experience in Data Engineering, including ownership of production-grade data platforms.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Proven experience in a technical leadership or lead IC role.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong hands-on experience with Scala and Python.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Solid experience with AWS, including S3, EC2, EMR, Kinesis, Firehose, Spark</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong understanding of event-driven and real-time architectures, even in maintenance-heavy environments.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong experience with Airflow for orchestration of batch and near-real-time data pipelines, including production operations and troubleshooting.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Deep knowledge of data warehousing and analytics workflows, including SQL.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Ability to work across teams ( DevOps, IT, Dev, Product, and Analytics ) and translate business needs into technical solutions.</li></ul>Nice-to-Have Qualifications<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with Apache Iceberg or other modern table formats (Delta, Hudi).</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Hands-on expertise with Redshift and/or Vertica, including performance tuning.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience enabling analytics engineering workflows (dbt or similar).</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Exposure to supporting data science workloads in production.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong opinions (and pragmatism) around observability, documentation, and cost management.</li></ul>

Follow Mayank - career advice

Follow Mayank Grover for game development resources

Free | C# | Midnight Pizza Fight

Free | C++ | Lethos

Free | C++ | Pong

Follow Abhishek - tech content

Follow Abhishek Smith for game programming content

This assessment gives us an idea of your C++ skills- Companies that evaluate this skillset in interviews: Rockstar Games, Ubisoft, Mayhem Studios, etc.- 10 Multiple Choice questions- Average time to complete: 7 to 10 minutes

Let's assess your Data Structures! - This assessment gives us an idea of your problem solving skills using DSA- Companies that evaluate this skillset in interviews: MPL, LILA Games, GSN Games, etc.- 10 Multiple Choice questions

Data Structures and Algorithms

Let's assess your Programming Patterns! ????- This assessment gives us an idea of your code architecture skills- Companies that evaluate this skillset in interviews: Dirtcube, PTW, Playshifu, etc.

Programming Patterns

Let's assess your OOPs skills! ????- This assessment gives us an idea of your fundamental OOPS concepts and Solid principles skills- Companies that evaluate this skillset in interviews: Hitwicket, GSN Games, Tomo Club, etc.

Object Oriented Programming

Let's assess your Unity Skills ????- This assessment gives us an idea of your Unity fundamentals- Companies you can apply for after taking this assessment: Godspeed games, Salvation Games, nCore Games, etc.