Senior Software Engineer, Crunchyroll
Membership
$167-209k
Pay range above is for Los Angeles residents, for San Francisco residents the pay range is: $185,440 - $231,800 USD
2+ days a week in office
Streaming service for anime and manga
Open for applications
Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$167-209k
Pay range above is for Los Angeles residents, for San Francisco residents the pay range is: $185,440 - $231,800 USD
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create experiences for anime and manga fans, and to enable them to connect through the content they love.
Role
Who you are
- Education that results in strong understanding of computer science principles and design patterns. Education ranging from a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related science and engineering degree to alternative education, training, bootcamps, or certifications
- 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
- You have worked in a distributed systems or microservice architecture, handling complex system integrations and scalability challenges
- Expertise in Typescript/NodeJS
- Proficient in Golang
- Experience with databases like MySQL/PostgresDB/MariaDB/MongoDB
- Experience building cloud native scalable application with AWS/GCP and technologies like API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, S3 Plus on RDS, ECS, EKS
- You are willing to be on-call on a rotational basis along with others in the team to ensure incidents are addressed as quickly as possible with the least disruption to our end-users
- Ability to write & assess clean, functional, high quality and testable code for each of our projects
- You have experience designing and implementing subscription-based models including billing cycles, recurring payments, and churn analysis on a high scale
- Build features based on tech requirements provided. Self managing and efficiently taking projects to completion
- You have a positive and proactive attitude, strong problem-solving skills and communication skills. You enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and are motivated to contribute to the success of the team
What the job involves
- The Membership team is responsible for building and maintaining systems that assist in granting different levels of benefits for users
- We are directly tied to one of the main streams of revenue and pride ourselves on quality code, service reliability, and teamwork
- Our day to day work includes payment provider integrations (Credit card, Paypal, iTunes App Store, Google Play, Roku, etc), customer support and marketing initiatives (promotional coupons and gift access), and assisting growth opportunities (analytics and reporting)
- Our services process millions of subscriptions in a highly secure, distributed, and scalable environment that is constantly evolving to meet the needs of both our users and privacy standard processes
- In this role, you will report to the Engineering Manager of the Membership team
- We are considering applicants for the locations of Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, or Dallas, TX
- Work with your team to add, extend or debug subscription features to super-serve our anime community, impacting millions of users internationally
- Brainstorm with your engineering leaders, manager, product partners, and designers to unpack large complex features and user journeys into attainable milestones
- You’ll explore multiple solutions with a 360-degree view of your user’s needs
- Demonstrate responsibility for your tasks from start to finish
- Collaborate with your team’s product owner and with QA to thoroughly review and validate your contributions, ensuring that they meet the highest standards of quality for our users
- Review pull requests of other team members, injecting your expertise and thoughtful considerations to expedite the decision-making process
- Embrace a bias for action and ensure that your keen eye spots any potential software vulnerabilities that might unintentionally creep into the codebase
- Participate in on-call shifts and respond to incidents affecting one of our subscription services in production
- Diagnose where our problem spaces are and deeply understand what went wrong in order to follow up with long-term solutions for our system
Our take
In recent decades, anime - encompassing Japanese, Korean, and Chinese animation 0 has transitioned from a niche interest to a formidable industry, boasting a global market worth approximately $30B. Despite this growth, distribution has historically posed challenges, with series and films often reaching overseas audiences through disparate channels, if at all. Crunchyroll emerged to address this issue by consolidating the largest collection of anime into a single streaming service.
Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll in 2021 for $1.75B expanded the platform's reach, integrating Sony's extensive animation library into its offerings. this move also positioned Crunchyroll for heightened competition against streaming giant Netflix, known for its substantial investments in anime production and acquisition. Currently, Crunchyroll maintains an unrivaled library of anime content, boasting over 44,000 episodes that have attracted over 0M paying subscribers.
While Crunchyroll initially offered a free, ad-supported tier to its vast community, it appears poised to phase out this option, transitioning to a subscription-based model for all new series. Despite this shift, the platform has implemented a global reduction in fees to stimulate subscription uptake. The success of this strategy remains to be seen, but past experiences with companies like Hulu suggest that it may drive subscription growth and mitigate piracy
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2010
$0.8m
EARLY VC
Feb 2008
$4.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $4.9m
Company benefits
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- Support program for new parents
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
Company HQ
Lucerne - Higuera, Culver City, CA
Leadership
Kun Gao
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Crunchyroll in 2006 and served as CEO/General Manager/Board Member until 2018. Previously the founder and CTO of Frappr.com as well as a Product Engineer at HOT or NOT.
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