Senior Software Engineer (Roku/BrightScript Developer)

Job Summary :

We’re looking for experienced Journey-level Software Engineer for the Roku Client Application Engineering Team, where you’ll be part of the team that builds our Direct-to-Consumer client apps, such as Disney+, Star+, ESPN and Hulu on Roku streaming devices and smart TVs.

We’re looking for an engineer who, ideally, has experience in BrightScript and is ready to write client apps that provide the best experiences for our viewers.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role :

• Be a critical member of a team of engineers responsible for building our client app experiences in BrightScript, using the Roku SceneGraph SDK
• Contribute to the development of new application features from on-boarding to browse UI / UX experiences, analytics, video playback UI / UX and much more.

If you see it on screen, you’ll likely have a chance to work on it in code

• Have the opportunity to contribute to the development of tools and systems outside of the Roku apps, such as JavaScript- & React-based web tools, gulp build scripts, AWS configurations, and services
• Work with Roku to vet new hardware, firmware and certification requirements from a client application perspective
• Collaborate closely with our client SDK engineering, design engineering, services engineering teams and product owners to help understand and communicate requirements and device limitations

Required Education, Experience / Skills / Training :

Basic Qualifications

• At least 5 years of development experience with a client-side development stack, ideally with at least 2 years BrightScript experience
• Experience with MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture
• Candidates will be expected to be proficient in technical design and development of generalized solutions, such as reusable utilities and UI components, and generalized logic that can be consumed by multiple applications
• Candidates should have experience mentoring junior level team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience creating beautiful, rich, performant user interfaces, including implementing pixel-perfect designs and animations
• Experience working on user interface-level code and knowledge of common patterns, architectures, and approaches to present a data-driven UX to viewers
• Familiarity with development and troubleshooting on set-top boxes or Smart TVs
• Experience working on a range of devices with varying performance and capabilities
• Experience with configuration-driven development
• Experience with performance optimization and feature degradation techniques
• Experience creating and extending templated controls, and writing custom controls
• Experience with asynchronous and concurrent code
• Experience with unit testing and related patterns
• Experience with JavaScript client- and server-side development
• Experience with DevOps, gulp scripts, Jenkins and AWS

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree or better in Computer Science or a related technical field

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA and New York, NY is $142,516- $191,180 per year, in Santa Monica and Burbank CA is $ $136,100 - $182,400, and in San Francisco CA is $$148,994 - $199,870.

The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.

A bonus and / or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.