WE HELP EVERYONE BELONG. IT’S OUR PURPOSE.
Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.
Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!
About the Team
Service Monetization team is responsible for building, maintaining, and securing systems that manage subscriptions and collect payments for Crunchyroll fans. We are directly tied to many streams of revenue and pride ourselves on quality code, service reliability, and teamwork. Our day to day work includes building features for robust subscription management, customer incentives, integration with a variety of payment providers, fraud detection, and maintaining compliance of our systems. Our services enable millions of subscriptions and process millions of payments in a highly secure, distributed, and scalable environment that is constantly evolving to meet the needs of both our fans and our business!
Crunchyroll Engineering
Crunchyroll’s Engineering teams thrive on action, impact, ownership, curiosity, and fan obsession. We embrace evolution, concise documentation, excellence, and empowering engineers. As part of our team, you’ll take ownership of tasks, delivering high-quality results on time, exceeding fans’ expectations. We foster collaboration, fearlessly exploring innovative solutions and challenging the status quo. Our commitment to learning and curiosity drives us to embrace change and tackle complex challenges head-on, revolutionizing the anime streaming experience for our community.
About the role
In the role of Senior Software Engineer (SWE), you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager.
In this role, you will join the Service Monetization team that is newly forming in our Hyderabad office, contributing to the growth of Crunchyroll’s presence in India. As a Senior Software Engineer at Crunchyroll, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions that power our platform. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality code, mentor junior developers, and contribute to key architectural decisions. Your work will have a direct impact on improving the user experience for millions of anime fans worldwide. Success in this position will be measured by your ability to deliver scalable and maintainable solutions within the first few months, your collaboration with other teams, and your contributions to the team’s overall technical direction.
Core Areas of Responsibility
- Software Development: Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications using [specific technologies, e.g., Python, Java, Node.js, Golang]. Ensure code quality through peer reviews, unit testing, and continuous integration practices.
- System Architecture: Collaborate with staff engineers and other senior engineers to design scalable, maintainable, and efficient systems. Participate in architectural reviews and propose improvements.
- Technical Leadership: Take ownership of complex technical challenges and lead the development of solutions. Conducting code reviews, providing technical guidance and expertise to the team.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, engineering manager, staff engineer and other stakeholders to ensure that software meets business needs and user expectations.
- Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation, including design documents, API documentation, and user guides etc.
- Performance Optimization: Analyze and optimize the performance of applications, ensuring that they are efficient and scalable.
- Innovation: Stay updated with the latest technologies, trends, and best practices in software development. Suggest and implement new tools, processes, and methodologies to improve the development process.
- Debugging and Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve software defects and performance issues. Provide support for production systems as needed.
About You
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Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience: 8+ years of experience in the field as a software engineer with a significant portion of that experience dedicated to backend development for large-scale systems.
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in any programming languages like Java, Python, golang, node.js etc.
- Experience in building highly scalable backend services and applications.
- Knowledge of database systems (e.g., SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling. Experience with databases like MySQL/PostgresDB/MongoDB/DynamoDB
- Strong understanding of software design patterns, algorithms, and data structures.
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
- You have experience with microservices architecture and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience building cloud native scalable application with AWS/GCP and technologies like API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, S3 Plus on RDS, ECS, EKS
Soft Skills:
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Leadership skills and experience mentoring junior engineers.
We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value
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Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
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Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
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Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
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Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.
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What We Do
Crunchyroll is the world’s largest destination for anime and manga focused on creating 360° experiences — from video to merchandise, events, and gaming — for fans to connect through the content they love.
Why Work With Us
The quality of our company is a direct result of the quality of our people, so we take the process and art of hiring very seriously. Every position we recruit against is an opportunity for us to enhance and directly impact our culture and climate, and it is a reflection of the values we uphold.
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