Senior Software Engineer (Live)

• This team spends most of its time working on customer focused features that improve the user experience, from content discovery and search to Roku pay and subscription to embedded software and firmware, and much more
• Our product roadmap helps us accelerate our growth and scale, putting surprising new features into the hands of tens of millions of Roku users worldwide
• Our developers and engineers are owners. They are motivated from within, finding and taking on a feature or project simply because that problem needs to be solved and shipped. But that individual must work together with different engineering teams, UI design, product teams, and business leadership to make things happen, which means that engineers succeed here because they can maintain that independent spirit and motivation within a deeply collaborative environment. We are the pragmatic dreamers inventing and re-inventing the world of streaming media
• Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry
• While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television and streaming media worldwide, continued success stems from experienced software engineers like you developing core features for the Roku platform
• The Senior Software Engineer will be contributing extensively to our embedded UI development, algorithm implementation for complex features to make it more user intuitive and underlying architecture
• You will be working closely with product management to understand new features or extending current features for international market needs, development using modern C++ libraries/frameworks, scripting language and integration of third-party code. You will also be engaged in developing tools which can help larger development community within Roku
• The features and performance improvements you implement directly impact millions of users every day
• Develop core features of the Roku Channel app and Roku OS
• Work closely with Product Development, UI/UX design, Platform Services, and Release Management teams to contribute to our application development. Investigate, diagnose and resolve issues

Benefits

• Medical, wellness and financial benefits
• Free snacks and access to the company fitness center
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities- A proven track record of shipping high-quality software on embedded platforms is essential
• This is a great role for a senior professional who enjoys a high level of visibility and thrives on great business impact
• This is a great role for an experienced professional who has innovative ideas for complex problems and can translate these ideas into ultra-reliable software
• A good understanding of API design, considerations and trade-offs
• Experience working in streaming is a plus
• Must have strong embedded C++ experience
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related fields-MS3
• A good understanding of Core OS concepts like memory management and multi-threading
• Strong experience in Typescript
• Experience writing functional integration and unit tests
• Experience developing UI applications using popular frameworks
• Consumer electronics experience building Media/Content and/or Ad product would be beneficial
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (this role involves frequent communication with teams throughout Roku)