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We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.\nHere, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day.\nIf you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!\nSenior Software Engineer, Smart TV/CTV\nLocation: New York / Los Angeles / San Francisco / Ft. Lauderdale\nOverview\nYou’ll build and ship Paramount’s Smart TV applications across Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, and other CTV\nplatforms. These apps run on web-based runtimes with tight memory budgets, limited CPU, and hardware that\nvaries by model year and price point. You’ll write React and TypeScript that performs within those constraints.\nYou’ll own features from concept through certification. You’ll work with central video engineering, external\nplatform partners, and Product/Design to deliver what millions of viewers see on the biggest screen in the\nhouse.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain application components for Paramount’s Smart TV apps using React andTypeScript\n\nOptimize application performance on resource-constrained CTV devices. Profile rendering, measurememory, fix what’s slow\n\nCollaborate with central video engineering teams to integrate and optimize video players across platforms\nWork with external platform partners (Samsung, LG, and others) to develop, debug, and certifyapplications\n\nManage application state with Redux and RTK. Keep the store clean and selectors fast as the app grows\nWrite clean, tested code and participate in code reviews. Hold your teammates to the same standard\nCoordinate with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to turn requirements into working features\nWork across multiple agile teams and contribute to all phases of the development cycle\nImprove CI/CD pipelines and testing infrastructure for multi-platform Smart TV deployments\nDocument components, platform-specific patterns, and technical decisions\nUse AI development tools to move faster and share what works with the team\nRequired Qualifications\n5+ years writing software\n2+ years building Smart TV or CTV applications on web-based platforms (Tizen, webOS, or similar)\nBS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience\nReact and TypeScript. You build components, not just consume them\nState management with Redux and RTK. You understand store shape, middleware, and when selectorscause unnecessary re-renders\n\nClient-side routing patterns (React Router or equivalent)\nFront-end fundamentals: HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript. You can debug layout and rendering issues ona TV runtime\n\nYou’ve taken features from concept through delivery on CTV platforms, including certification\nCI/CD environments with DevOps and SRE principles\nRESTful API integration and data handling\nYou communicate technical decisions in writing and in conversation. People act on what you say becauseit’s clear\n\nYou use AI tools (Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar) to write and ship code faster\nDesired Qualifications\nExperience with multiple CTV platforms (Tizen, webOS, Vizio, Xbox, PlayStation, or others)\nPerformance optimization on TV devices: profiling, memory measurement, rendering analysis. You knowhow to find the bottleneck, not just guess\n\nBrowser internals knowledge: rendering pipelines, compositing, layout thrashing, and how these behaveon TV runtimes vs. desktop browsers\n\nVideo player integration experience (Shaka, hls.js, or native platform players)\nObservability tools: Conviva, New Relic, Datadog, Sentry, or similar\nExperience working in Agile frameworks across distributed teams and time zones\nRapid proof-of-concept experience. You’ve built throwaway prototypes to answer hard questions fast\nEnthusiasm for sharing AI tools and workflows that save the team time\nYou care about UX on the 10-foot screen and you’ll push back when something isn’t right\nYou say “I don’t know” when you don’t know\nWhat Good Looks Like\nYou open a Smart TV codebase you’ve never seen, connect a Tizen emulator, and start diagnosing arendering issue the same afternoon\n\nOther engineers read your code and understand it without a walkthrough\nYou spot a memory leak on a 2020-era LG TV before QA files a ticket. You fix it and write up whathappened\n\nWhen a certification submission fails, you read the rejection, fix the issue, and flag what the team shouldcheck next time\n\nYou own your features end to end. From scoping through deployment, you don’t wait for someone to tellyou what’s next\n\nYou know which React patterns cause jank on low-end CTV hardware. You avoid them and explain why toteammates who ask\n\nYou push back when a plan has gaps. You suggest a better approach\nYou treat the build pipeline, test coverage, and error monitoring like product features\nYou help your teammates get better. Through code reviews, pairing, or writing things down so the nextperson doesn’t hit the same wall\n\nParamount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world’s biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the U.S. in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming’s other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.\nADDITIONAL INFORMATION\nHiring Salary Range: $124,000.00 - 186,000.00.\nThe hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.\nWhat We Offer:\nAttractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here.\nGenerous paid time off.\nComplimentary subscriptions to HBO Max, Paramount+, and other Skydance streaming services and digital news products.\nRobust employee engagement opportunities, including access to exclusive screenings and events, speaker series, volunteer activities and more.\nSkydance is an equal opportunity employer (EOE)\nWe embrace the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable law.\nIf you are a qualified individual with a disability, you may request a reasonable accommodation during the job application and/or recruitment process. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 212.846.5500 or by sending an email to . 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