Senior Roku Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Roku Engineer to join a fast-paced team building high-quality OTT and streaming experiences for connected TV platforms. This role is ideal for someone with strong commercial Roku development experience who enjoys building scalable, data-driven applications and contributing to modern streaming technologies. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver polished user experiences while helping shape development best practices and platform tooling. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in BrightScript, SceneGraph, and the full Roku application lifecycle from development through App Store deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain high-quality Roku applications using BrightScript, SceneGraph, and modern Roku technologies.
• Manage the Roku development lifecycle from concept to App Store release and ongoing maintenance.
• Implement Figma designs with high attention to UI/UX quality and detail.
• Build reusable and custom SDK components for scalable application development.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams to deliver features on time.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing applications to ensure reliability and smooth performance.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with strong attention to edge cases and application stability.
• Contribute to platform tooling, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and development best practices.
• Stay up to date with OTT industry trends, emerging technologies, and modern development approaches.

Core Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of commercial Roku development experience.
• Strong proficiency in BrightScript, SceneGraph, and modern Roku technologies.
• Experience working with Roku SDKs or SDK development in general.
• Experience managing Roku App Store build creation, submission, deployment, and release processes.
• Experience building extensible, data-driven Roku applications.
• Strong experience integrating APIs using REST, JSON-RPC, gRPC, WebSockets, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with Charles Proxy or similar debugging/network inspection tools.
• Understanding of monitoring, alerting, integration testing, and code coverage best practices.
• Experience working in collaborative, multi-developer environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience managing or improving CI/CD pipelines and platform-specific tooling.
• Previous experience working on large-scale OTT or streaming applications.
• Familiarity with performance optimization for connected TV platforms.
• Experience contributing to internal SDKs or developer tooling.
• Knowledge of analytics, video playback, or ad integrations within Roku ecosystems.

Additional

• US Timezone Overlap: 6h-7h daily PST