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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 ROLE
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our LRX Core team, focused on building the shared architecture and foundational layers that power Crunchyroll experiences across Smart TVs, Game Consoles, and other connected devices.
In this role, you will design and implement core client frameworks, shared modules, and platform-level capabilities that enable multiple product teams to build consistently and efficiently. You will play a key role in shaping our HTML5-based architecture, driving technical direction, and ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability across devices.
This role requires strong frontend expertise (JavaScript, TypeScript, React) and experience working with performance-constrained or platform-specific environments.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Architect and Build Core Platform Capabilities: Design, implement, and evolve shared client architecture, frameworks, and libraries used across Smart TVs and Game Consoles.
- Drive Cross-Platform Consistency: Define and enforce patterns for navigation, state management, rendering, and performance to ensure consistent behavior across devices.
- Lead Complex Technical Initiatives: Own and deliver large, cross-team projects with multiple dependencies, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural goals.
- Define Event-Driven and Scalable Systems: Design systems that support modular, event-driven architectures and enable extensibility across multiple clients and teams.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with product, design, and platform teams to align on requirements, unblock development, and drive shared solutions.
- Code Quality and Technical Leadership: Lead code reviews, provide actionable feedback, and establish best practices that improve maintainability and scalability.
- Performance and Reliability: Identify and address performance bottlenecks, memory constraints, and platform-specific limitations across connected devices.
- Mentorship and Team Growth: Support and mentor engineers, helping raise the technical bar and fostering a culture of ownership and collaboration.
- Documentation and Enablement: Create clear technical documentation and guidance to enable adoption of shared systems across teams.
In the role of Senior Engineer, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, LRX.
We are considering applicants for the location(s) of San Francisco, CA.
ABOUT YOU
We get excited about candidates, like you, because you have...
- Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on frontend or client-side engineering.
- Frontend Expertise: Deep experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, including building scalable and maintainable applications.
- Platform / Architecture Experience: Proven ability to design and deliver complex systems, frameworks, or shared libraries used across multiple teams or products.
- Connected Devices (Preferred): Experience building applications for Smart TVs, Game Consoles, or other constrained environments (or strong interest in this space).
- Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead projects, influence architectural decisions, and drive alignment across teams.
- Problem Solving: Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, especially in cross-module or platform-specific scenarios.
- Collaboration: Experience working with cross-functional teams and managing dependencies in distributed environments.
- Communication: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Fan Experiences team at Crunchyroll plays a pivotal role in enhancing and expanding our users' experiences. We partner with platform engineers, designers, and product teams to build immersive, performant applications that delight users across a growing range of devices. Our team thrives on action, innovation, and a shared commitment to raising the bar. We are curious, data-driven, and passionate about continuously improving the way fans experience anime.
WHY YOU WILL LOVE WORKING AT CRUNCHYROLL
In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:
- 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!
COMPENSATION
- Pay Transparency - San Francisco, CA
- Pay Range: $203,400 - $235,000 USD
The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
ABOUT OUR VALUES
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
- Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
- Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
- Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
- Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
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.
Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs:
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights.
Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers. Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com email account.
ABOUT CRUNCHYROLL
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 ROLE
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our LRX Core team, focused on building the shared architecture and foundational layers that power Crunchyroll experiences across Smart TVs, Game Consoles, and other connected devices.
In this role, you will design and implement core client frameworks, shared modules, and platform-level capabilities that enable multiple product teams to build consistently and efficiently. You will play a key role in shaping our HTML5-based architecture, driving technical direction, and ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability across devices.
This role requires strong frontend expertise (JavaScript, TypeScript, React) and experience working with performance-constrained or platform-specific environments.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Architect and Build Core Platform Capabilities: Design, implement, and evolve shared client architecture, frameworks, and libraries used across Smart TVs and Game Consoles.
- Drive Cross-Platform Consistency: Define and enforce patterns for navigation, state management, rendering, and performance to ensure consistent behavior across devices.
- Lead Complex Technical Initiatives: Own and deliver large, cross-team projects with multiple dependencies, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural goals.
- Define Event-Driven and Scalable Systems: Design systems that support modular, event-driven architectures and enable extensibility across multiple clients and teams.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with product, design, and platform teams to align on requirements, unblock development, and drive shared solutions.
- Code Quality and Technical Leadership: Lead code reviews, provide actionable feedback, and establish best practices that improve maintainability and scalability.
- Performance and Reliability: Identify and address performance bottlenecks, memory constraints, and platform-specific limitations across connected devices.
- Mentorship and Team Growth: Support and mentor engineers, helping raise the technical bar and fostering a culture of ownership and collaboration.
- Documentation and Enablement: Create clear technical documentation and guidance to enable adoption of shared systems across teams.
In the role of Senior Engineer, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, LRX.
We are considering applicants for the location(s) of San Francisco, CA.
ABOUT YOU
We get excited about candidates, like you, because you have...
- Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on frontend or client-side engineering.
- Frontend Expertise: Deep experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, including building scalable and maintainable applications.
- Platform / Architecture Experience: Proven ability to design and deliver complex systems, frameworks, or shared libraries used across multiple teams or products.
- Connected Devices (Preferred): Experience building applications for Smart TVs, Game Consoles, or other constrained environments (or strong interest in this space).
- Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead projects, influence architectural decisions, and drive alignment across teams.
- Problem Solving: Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, especially in cross-module or platform-specific scenarios.
- Collaboration: Experience working with cross-functional teams and managing dependencies in distributed environments.
- Communication: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Fan Experiences team at Crunchyroll plays a pivotal role in enhancing and expanding our users' experiences. We partner with platform engineers, designers, and product teams to build immersive, performant applications that delight users across a growing range of devices. Our team thrives on action, innovation, and a shared commitment to raising the bar. We are curious, data-driven, and passionate about continuously improving the way fans experience anime.
WHY YOU WILL LOVE WORKING AT CRUNCHYROLL
In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:
- 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!
COMPENSATION
- Pay Transparency - San Francisco, CA
- Pay Range: $203,400 - $235,000 USD
The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
ABOUT OUR VALUES
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
- Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
- Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
- Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
- Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
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.
Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs:
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights.
Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers. Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com email account.
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Technician openings at Crunchyroll frequently support live simulcast events and regional streaming infrastructure. Roles tied to core product delivery are more likely to justify sponsorship internally than peripheral or project-based technical positions.
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Does Crunchyroll sponsor H-1B visas for Technicians?
Yes, Crunchyroll has sponsored H-1B visas for Technician roles. As a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the company has the legal infrastructure and HR processes to support H-1B petitions. That said, sponsorship decisions are made on a role-by-role basis, so confirming sponsorship eligibility with your recruiter before the offer stage is the right move.
How do I apply for Technician jobs at Crunchyroll?
Applications go through Crunchyroll's careers portal directly. Migrate Mate also lists open Technician roles at Crunchyroll filtered by visa sponsorship type, which makes it easier to find positions where your visa category is already supported. Tailor your application to highlight technical broadcast or streaming experience, since those qualifications are most relevant to their Technician hiring.
Which visa types does Crunchyroll sponsor for Technician roles?
Crunchyroll has sponsored H-1B, E-3, TN, F-1 OPT, and F-1 CPT visas for technical positions. E-3 is available to Australian citizens and is a strong option given its lower competition compared to H-1B. TN applies to Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying technical occupations. F-1 OPT and CPT are typically available for students actively enrolled or recently graduated.
What qualifications does Crunchyroll expect for Technician roles?
Technician roles at Crunchyroll typically require hands-on experience with broadcast systems, streaming workflows, or AV infrastructure. Familiarity with live production environments, signal routing, encoding, or playout systems is commonly expected. A degree in a technical field helps, but demonstrated operational experience with media or broadcast technology often carries more weight in the screening process.
How do I understand the timeline for visa sponsorship at Crunchyroll?
Timeline depends on your visa type. H-1B has a fixed USCIS registration window in March, with employment starting no earlier than October 1. E-3 and TN can move faster since they don't require a lottery. F-1 OPT authorization through your DSO typically takes two to three months, so apply for your EAD well before your program end date to avoid a work authorization gap.
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