Lead Software Engineer

Paramount•Burbank, CA

18d•Onsite

About The Position

You'll own the technical direction of Paramount's Smart TV applications across Samsung Tizen, LG webOS,and other CTV platforms. These apps run on web-based runtimes with tight memory budgets, limited CPU, andhardware that varies by model year and price point. You know these constraints and you know how to buildReact applications that perform within them. You'll lead a team of engineers, write code alongside them, and set the standard for how the team builds. You'llcoordinate with central video engineering, external platform partners, and Product/Design to ship features thatwork on the biggest screen in the house.

Requirements

8+ years writing software
3+ years building Smart TV or CTV applications on web-based platforms (Tizen, webOS, or similar)
2+ years leading a team or serving as a technical lead
BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
React and TypeScript at a level where you can design component architectures, not just use them
State management with Redux and RTK. You've made decisions about store shape, middleware, andselector performance that held up at scale
Client-side routing patterns (React Router or equivalent)
Front-end fundamentals: HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript. You can debug layout and rendering issues ona TV runtime without guessing
You've taken features from concept through delivery on CTV platforms, including certification anddeployment
CI/CD environments with DevOps and SRE principles
RESTful API integration and data handling
Performance profiling and optimization on resource-constrained devices. You know how to measure, notjust improve
You write and speak about technical decisions in a way that helps people act on them
You use AI tools (Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar) and can point to specific ways they've changed howyou work

Nice To Haves

Experience with multiple CTV platforms (Tizen, webOS, Vizio, Xbox, PlayStation, or others)
You've built or maintained cross-platform CTV codebases that share React code across Tizen, webOS,and other targets
Browser internals knowledge: rendering pipelines, compositing, layout thrashing, and how these behaveon TV runtimes vs. desktop browsers
Video player integration experience (Shaka, hls.js, or native platform players)
You've rendered personalized or dynamically served content on memory-constrained CTV hardware
You've worked with real-time event pipelines or recommendation APIs on client applications
Observability tools: Conviva, New Relic, Datadog, Sentry, or similar
Experience working in Agile frameworks across distributed teams and time zones
Rapid proof-of-concept experience. You've built throwaway prototypes to answer hard questions fast
You've introduced AI tools to a team and helped them stick. Not a demo. Actual adoption
You care about UX enough to push back on Product and Design when something isn't right for the 10-footexperience
You say "I don't know" when you don't know

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for Paramount's Smart TV applications. Choose the patterns, own the architecture,make decisions the team can follow
Build and maintain application components using React and TypeScript. This is a hands-on role. You shipcode
Lead a team of Smart TV engineers. Run code reviews, pair on hard problems, give feedback that raisesthe bar
Architect around CTV platform constraints: web runtime limitations, memory ceilings, renderingperformance on low-end hardware, and platform certification requirements for Tizen, webOS, and othertargets
Ship real-time personalization features on Smart TV applications — personalized recommendations,dynamic artwork, and ad engagement experiences built for CTV constraints
Collaborate with central video engineering teams to integrate and optimize video players across platforms
Work with external platform partners (Samsung, LG, and others) to develop, debug, and certifyapplications
Plan and prioritize technical work. Scope projects, surface risks before they block the team, keep releaseson track
Write architecture docs, RFCs, and technical guides. Make decisions visible so the team doesn't have toguess
Improve CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and build tooling for multi-platform Smart TV deployments
Use AI development tools to move faster. Show the team what works and help them adopt it