Sr Product Software Engineer (Roku Engineering)

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, NY

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is seeking a Product Software Engineer II for the ABC News Mobile and Living Room Device team. This role will involve building the ABC News Direct-to-Consumer client app on Roku streaming devices and smart TVs. The ideal candidate will have experience in BrightScript and SceneGraph, and be ready to write client apps that provide the best experiences for viewers. This position is part of the team that builds our ABC News Direct-to-Consumer client app for streaming ABC News content from one of the most popular streaming devices on the market, pushing the boundaries of what is possible on 10-foot devices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of development experience with a client-side development stack, ideally with some BrightScript experience.
• Experience with MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture.
• Proficiency in the use of reusable utilities and UI components, and generalized logic that can be consumed by multiple applications.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent job experience in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Be a critical member of a team of engineers responsible for building client app experiences in BrightScript, using the Roku SceneGraph SDK.
• Contribute to the development of new application features, including on-boarding, browse UI/UX experiences, analytics, and video playback UI/UX.
• 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 client SDK engineering, design engineering, services engineering teams and product owners to understand and communicate requirements and device limitations.
• Collaborate closely with backend and mobile engineers to ensure parity across implementations and platforms.

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
• 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