About this Sr. Software Development Engineer, Consent Management Platform (12-month Fixed Term) role at The Pokémon Company International
Get to know The Pokémon Company International
The Pokémon Company International manages the Pokémon property outside of Asia and is responsible for brand management, licensing and 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.
Learn more online at corporate.pokemon.com and pokemon.com.
Get to know the role
- Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Consent Management Platform
- Job Summary: As a Senior Engineer supporting the Consent Management Platform, you will provide technical leadership in designing, building, and operating the secure, scalable services, APIs, and integrations that enable customer consent and preference management across the digital ecosystem. You will own core platform capabilities including consent records, audit history, identity integrations, and compliance controls, while partnering with Engineering, Quality, DevOps, InfoSec, Legal, Data Governance, Marketing Technology, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet customer, business, and regulatory requirements.
- FLSA Classification (US Only): Exempt
- People Manager: No
What you’ll do
- Provide senior technical leadership for the design and implementation of the platform services, APIs, data models and integrations underpinning the Consent Management capability.
- Translate agreed business, customer-experience, legal and regulatory requirements into clear technical designs and executable engineering plans.
- Design solutions that consistently capture, associate, retrieve, update and honor customer choices across anonymous, email-based and authenticated experiences.
- Establish robust engineering patterns for consent records, versioning, auditability, identity association, retention, access control and lifecycle management.
- Lead complex engineering initiatives across the full software-development lifecycle, from discovery and architecture through implementation, launch, monitoring and ongoing operation.
- Make sound technical decisions by balancing security, scalability, reliability, cost, delivery speed, customer impact, and long-term maintainability.
- Build and integrate API-driven services across customer experiences, identity systems, enterprise applications, cloud data stores and third-party consent-management technologies.
- Partner closely with experience and capability owners to ensure technical solutions enable consistent consent experiences across relevant digital touchpoints.
- Improve platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, performance analysis, capacity planning, incident response and operational automation.
- Explore and apply AI-enabled development practices where they can improve engineering productivity, system quality, platform operations or delivery outcomes.
- Mentor engineers through design guidance, code reviews, technical pairing and knowledge sharing, raising the technical capability of the broader team.
- Participate in the team’s on-call schedule and support critical production services when required.
What you’ll bring
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating modern, multi-tier applications and services in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience independently leading complex technical initiatives involving multiple systems, teams, or organizational stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong experience designing and developing API-driven platforms that integrate customer experiences, identity systems, data stores, vendor products, or enterprise applications.
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and frameworks, with the ability to evaluate and adopt technologies based on platform needs.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems design, including service boundaries, asynchronous processing, failure handling, scalability, resiliency, and eventual consistency.
- Experience designing data models and services that require strong auditability, version history, traceability, and accurate point-in-time answers.
- Understanding consent management, customer preferences, responsible data use, or related data-governance concepts.
- Strong knowledge of data-management principles, including ownership, classification, quality, lineage, retention, access control, auditability, and lifecycle management.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, including containerized workloads such as EKS or ECS and managed data stores such as RDS or DynamoDB on AWS or comparable cloud platforms.
- Experience implementing secure service-to-service integrations, authentication and authorization controls, encryption, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
- Familiarity with security standards, dependency scanning, and vulnerability management.
- Excellent communicator who can simplify technical issues for cross-functional stakeholders.
- A mentor who models clean code, documentation, and continuous improvement.
Base Salary Range: For this role, new hires generally start between$141,085 - $187,718 per year. The full range is $141,085 - $254,111 per year. This range is applicable for the labor market where the role is intended to be hired. The final base salary is directly related to the candidate’s qualifications and professional experience uniquely.
How you’ll be successful
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Building Relationships: Develops and strengthens relationships, adopting a “team first” mentality and working collaboratively to solve problems and meet shared goals.
- 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.
What to expect
- An innovative culture driven by impact, delivering meaningful outcomes.
- Company events that celebrate the spirit of Pokémon.
- Competitive cash-based compensation programs.
- 100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for you.
- Generous paid family leave.
- Employer-paid life insurance.
- Employer-paid long and short-term income protection insurance.
- US Employees: 401k Employer Matching.
- UK/IRE/MX Employees: Pension Employer Contributions.
- Fitness reimbursement.
- Commuter benefit.
- LinkedIn learning.
- Comprehensive relocation package for certain roles.
- Hybrid work environment.
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 [email protected].
