Senior Software Engineer - Roku Engineer

About the position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world's most beloved stories while transforming Disney's media business for the future. Software Engineers are at the heart of that innovation, building platforms, services, tools, and infrastructure for an unmatched collection of content and brands such as Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, and ABC. As a Lead Software Engineer for the Roku Client Application team, you'll be part of the team that builds our Direct-to-Consumer client apps on Roku streaming devices and smart TVs. We're looking for an engineer with experience in BrightScript to write client apps that provide the best experiences for our viewers.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 Node.js 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Proficient in technical design and development of generalized solutions, such as reusable utilities and UI components.
• Demonstrated ability to research and learn new technologies.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail.
• Driven and self-motivated.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.
• Familiarity with streaming media technologies such as HLS, DRM, HDCP, SSAI, SGAI.
• Experience with DevOps, gulp scripts, Jenkins and AWS.

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits depending on the level and position offered.
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.