Sr Software Engineer - Roku/BrightScript

About the position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences while transforming Disney's media business for the future. The team is responsible for building the Disney+ Direct-to-Consumer client app for Roku streaming devices and smart TVs, focusing on delivering the best experiences for viewers. The role involves working with BrightScript and SceneGraph to develop application features and collaborating with various engineering teams.

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.
• Experience mentoring junior level team members.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.

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.