Lightning JS Platform Engineer (Smart TV)

Angel

2d • $121,000 - $185,000

About The Position

Angel is the home of stories that amplify light. Through its platform, thousands of “Angel” investors choose which titles will be created, funded, and distributed. Angel allows creators and audiences to form passionate communities around their creative projects, making the story behind the story as important as the final project itself. Some of the studio's key projects-- The Sound of Freedom and Dry Bar Comedy --have earned billions of views around the world. Learn more at Angel.com We’re looking for passionate team members who want to build world-class products that will reshape media over the coming decades. Learn more about: Our North Star Company Strategy Team Principles Join us and be part of stories that amplify light. Opportunity Our engineering teams are revolutionizing what it means to be a part of inspirational entertainment. From building an army of voters weighing-in on short concept videos, expanding a membership-driven community with viewing perks both online and at the big screen, and innovating encoding tools that empower next-level parental guardrails, we’re bringing the world the next wave of entertainment powered directly by the people who want it. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership in areas that are sure to shore-up our streaming experiences and capabilities. We have a lot of features that have quickly taken to the market that we need to add structure and scalability to. We also have a broad vision of new innovative projects to take the Angel experience to new heights. This is a high-ownership, high-impact opportunity where you’ll add vision, strategy, and execution for how millions of fans discover, watch, and engage with Angel’s ever growing library of stories.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience as a software engineer
• 8+ years of building front end experiences
• 3+ years of experience within the last 5 years working with SolidJS building front end applications
• Extensive experience with Lightning JS and working with Smart TVs
• A builder’s mindset with a bias for innovation — excited to push the boundaries of a long-standing, high-impact industry and modernize how world-class streaming experiences are built.
• Deep technical judgment — a passion for thoughtful component design and architectural planning that produces codebases that are resilient, scalable, and built to last.
• A developer-experience multiplier — motivated to level up how the team builds by improving tooling, test coverage, CI/CD workflows, and overall code health.
• Comfort operating at high velocity — able to deliver quality work in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements, without losing attention to detail.
• Strong ownership and initiative — you spot opportunities, define a plan, and execute end-to-end with urgency and accountability.
• Expert collaborator and communicator — able to clearly articulate ideas, present tradeoffs, and partner effectively across engineering, product, and design.
• Experience with cloud-based platforms and services, and how they intersect with front-end and streaming systems.
• A strong grasp of CI/CD — ability to work through small, frequent releases and automation drive quality and speed.
• Relentless attention to detail — you notice what others miss and care deeply about correctness, performance, and polish.
• Highly organized and adaptable — able to manage multiple priorities, navigate ambiguity, and adjust quickly as conditions change.
• Resourceful problem solver — comfortable tackling open-ended challenges and finding pragmatic solutions when the path isn’t obvious.
• Growth-oriented and feedback-driven — you proactively seek, give, and act on meaningful feedback with positive intent, consistently turning it into better outcomes for yourself, your peers, and the team.
• Always learning — quick to pick up new tools, technologies, and platforms, and eager to apply them effectively and teach them to others
• An owner and leader — you execute with high energy, share context freely, insist on candor, and raise the bar for everyone around you

Nice To Haves

• Experience with functional programming frameworks like Effect, fp-ts or similar
• Experience working within a monorepo managed by pnpm
• Experience working with legacy deployment constraints (Supporting Chrome 39+)
• Experience with BASH and CLI SDKs outside of the npm ecosystem
• Experience with building and deploying apps that use HLS.js
• Experience with The Angel Guild is Strongly Preferred

Responsibilities

• Drive streaming excellence at scale — delivering a discovery and playback experience that feels buttery smooth, responsive, and immersive, even on older, underpowered Smart TV models.
• Tame the hardest devices — making Angel work reliably on low-memory, slow CPU, and inconsistent Smart TV platforms that others give up on.
• Push the boundaries of what’s possible — designing and maintaining highly efficient, secure, and reusable code that performs under high memory, network, and device constraints.
• Build, ship, and iterate at speed — rapidly delivering innovative features, testing ideas in production, and continuously improving quality through small, frequent releases.
• Set the standard for quality and performance — embedding performance, observability, and reliability into the development process within a CI/CD environment.
• Measure what matters — help define, instrument, and track metrics for streaming performance, app health, and user experience, and coach the team on using data to guide decisions.
• Hunt down and resolve the hardest, most elusive problems — diagnosing deep performance, memory, and lifecycle issues across the apps, and turning fragile, failure-prone flows into a consistently smooth, high-performance experience from launch to playback and beyond.
• Multiply the team’s speed and impact — provide expert front-end guidance, perform thoughtful code reviews, and actively coach and accelerate other engineers.
• Partner deeply across disciplines — working closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to shape features from concept to launch and beyond.
• Lead through influence — sharing knowledge in brownbags, workshops, hackathons, and cross-team forums to raise the technical bar across the organization.
• Continuously refine and improve — analyze real-world application performance, debug complex issues, and proactively recommend improvements.
• Strengthen our foundation — contribute to technical documentation that scales knowledge across Product and Engineering.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
• Short, and Long Term Disability Insurance and Basic Life Insurance paid for employee, with option of additional AD&D insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• 401(k) investment opportunity with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Identity Theft Insurance
• Pet Insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed