Senior Roku Engineer

Introduction:

As a Senior Roku Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining Roku application features using BrightScript and SceneGraph. You will collaborate with the team to integrate APIs, troubleshoot authentication flows, playback functionality, and multiple user screens. Additionally, you will support production issues and contribute to clean, well-factored code.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain Roku application features using BrightScript and SceneGraph
• Refactor tightly coupled code to improve architecture, maintainability, and scalability
• Integrate and troubleshoot APIs, authentication flows, playback functionality, and multiple user screens
• Support production issues and collaborate with engineering partners to deliver durable fixes
• Work closely with the team to communicate technical decisions clearly and contribute to clean, well-factored code

Requirements:

Required Skills:

• At least 3 years of hands-on Roku development experience with BrightScript and SceneGraph
• Experience building production Roku applications that include authentication, APIs, playback integration, and multiple screens or user flows
• Strong understanding of software architecture, clean code principles, separation of concerns, and refactoring
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs into application workflows
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, onsite team environment

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with streaming playback concepts, HLS, DASH, adaptive bitrate behavior, and DRM
• Familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript for internal tooling and automation
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and release automation
• Exposure to Roku platform integrations, such as deep linking, search feeds, continue watching, Roku Pay, or advertising frameworks
• Experience debugging production issues using Roku developer tools, profiling tools, or telemetry dashboards
• Background with other living-room or connected TV platforms