Sr Product Software Engineer(ROKU, Brightscript)

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

We’re looking for experienced Journey-level Product Software Engineer for the Roku Player team, where you’ll be part of the team that builds our Disney+ Direct-to-Consumer client app on Roku streaming devices and smart TVs. We’re looking for an engineer who, ideally, has experience in BrightScript, SceneGraph, and is ready to write client apps that provide the best experiences for our viewers.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of development experience with a client-side development stack, ideally with at least 2 years BrightScript experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or better in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent job experience.
• Experience with MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture.
• Proficient in technical design and development of generalized solutions, such as reusable utilities and UI components, and generalized logic that can be consumed by multiple applications.
• 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 with player technologies, such as HLS, MPEG-DASH, Transport Stream, and CMAF.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Be a critical member of a team of engineers responsible for building the client player and playback experiences in BrightScript, using the Roku SceneGraph SDK.
• Contribute to the development of new application features across many areas, including the player domain.
• Build tools and systems outside of the Roku apps, including JavaScript-based and React-based web tools, gulp build scripts, AWS configurations, and Node.js services.
• Partner with Roku to evaluate new hardware, firmware and certification requirements from a client application perspective.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to help understand and communicate requirements and device limitations.

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior