Lead Software Engineer, Roku
Payment Platform
$186-388k
+ Equity awards
Office located in San Jose, CA
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Open for applications
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$186-388k
+ Equity awards
Office located in San Jose, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide its users with a more convenient and cost effective way of watching the programs they love.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of experience in large scale backend services, specifically within payment system architecture and implementation, or related professional industry experience
- Good understanding with various payment flow is required, such as payment processing, card tokenization, payment gateway integration, token vault management, etc
- Good understanding of different payment processing flow, such as sync vs async, and online vs offline
- Familiar with different compliance standards, such as SOX, PCI, 3DS, etc
- Experience around RFP (Request for Proposal) Process, proven ability to translate business needs to vendor requirement, performance deep technical evaluation on 3rd parties vendor, and to help business selecting the right vendor to scale with the company
- Strong architectural design experience, great track record of building a highly available and scalable payment platform
- Experience with multi-cloud solution is a plus, ability to offer technical guidance to design, deploy and scale application across multiple cloud environments
- Strong expertise with cloud solutions/systems across cloud with AWS or GCP is a must
- Strong experience in designing, leading highly complex transactional systems
- Strong passion for technology and adding value to the bottomline through technology
- Strong expertise with Payments and billing systems is required
- Strong passion & expertise with building and adopting CI/CD pipelines
What the job involves
- Lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and designs. Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges
- Engage in architectural discussions across multiple teams, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives
- Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive platform capabilities to ensure high availability and scalability
- Demonstrate engineering excellence practice by setting expectation and lead by hands-on examples
- Own building platform features, driving directly with product and other engineering teams
- Review technical specification documents created by the development team and mentor team members
- Own design and implementation of shared architectural layers (e.g. queuing, event systems, shared memory clusters) and libraries that can be used across teams
- Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions – developers, QA and infrastructure/ops
- Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse
- Be actively involved in code/design reviews, but expected to code 70% of the time
Our take
According to Nielsen data, the average streamer spends over seven minutes searching for something to watch. Streaming services use customers' viewing history to make suggestions, but these are limited to programs licensed for that particular service.
Roku provides an integrated streaming service that offers TV channels, movies and third-party streaming services, resulting in an all-in-one streaming platform. The service can be accessed through a variety of customized subscription packages and fees.
Roku stands out in the streaming industry by bringing many competitors together in one package. The startup provides further innovative services such as a weekly TV series named 'Roku Recommends' which uses first-party data to recommend essential viewing to users. Alongside funding filmmakers through its "Change Makers Program", Roku also acquired its own original library of shows through its acquisition of now-defunct Quibi's library in 2021. After successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released in 2023, further exemplifying the streaming company's wider ambitions in the media sector.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2016
$45.5m
LATE VC
Nov 2015
$45.5m
SERIES H
Total funding: $247.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, wellness and financial benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Free snacks and access to the company fitness center
Company HQ
Newhall, San Jose, CA
Articles
Leadership
Anthony Wood
(CEO)Studied Engineering at Texas A&M before founding their first company in 1986. They held VP roles at both Adobe and Netflix.
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