Roku Developer

5centsCDN•Remote, Oregon, United States, OR

About The Position

We are looking to hire a highly motivated software engineer who specializes in Roku development. If you're someone who can provide technical expertise in scripting languages and participate in advanced level design, we'd be happy to have you on our team. Apart from that, you'd also be responsible for monitoring industry trends and basing your development on them in order to maintain and enhance the product's leadership position in the industry.

Requirements

5+ years of software development in applicable technologies OR 2+ years of working specifically on set-top or OTT platforms.
Experience with the Roku SDK (and Brightscript) and other VOD platforms OR strong experience and understanding of the C and/or Java language.
Proficient at generating code in existing codebases and from scratch.
Valuable collaboration with teammates and stakeholders.
Enthusiasm for building a Roku library that handles all aspects of video playback.
We are looking for a doer, the type of person that brings a can-do, figure it out type of energy to the job every day, and is willing to jump in and help.

Responsibilities

Develop high-quality, reusable, and scalable code.
Provide guidance on implementation and design best practices to other developers.
Produce design artifacts such as class diagrams and sequence diagrams for Roku library features or client solutions.
Implement product features within a team using best practices to meet product deliverables.
Implement new features and enhance existing code to increase operating efficiency and extensibility and/or adapt programs to new requirements.
Participate in Agile sprint planning sessions and provide constructive feedback.
Help the Product Management team with high-level estimation and clarification of the technical implementation of features.
Prepare software packages for deployment that adhere to the defined standard deployment policies.
Generate product documentation for releases.
Mentor junior developers throughout the development lifecycle.
Produce a reliable, performant, configurable, state-of-the-art SDK.
Write clean, concise, readable code that follows common design patterns while adhering to best engineering practices.
Push technical boundaries and propose new processes and technologies.
Ensure quality and confidence in software by writing effective automated unit tests.
Translate functional requirements into solutions that work well with the current architecture.
Develop prototypes and proof of concept projects to test the waters with new technologies or ideas.