Senior Software Engineer, Roku
Search & Recommendations Platform
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Open for applications
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
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
- We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building services at scale
- The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution
- You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organizations
- The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs
- Strong software development experience - Java preferably - (Python nice to have)
- Expertise in building large-scale cloud services, ideally in AWS
- Experience in the appropriate selection of data stores and analysis of trade-offs
- Experience with in-memory caching layers such as Redis, Redis Cluster, Memcached, or others
- Track record of monitoring the quality of deploys and troubleshooting of production systems
- Strong knowledge of the end-to-end architecture of the web, from end-user device to a service in a data center
- Master's degree in CS, CE or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- With so many people relying on us for great movies, TV, and news - scaling, reliability, fallbacks, and automation of these scenarios are always at the top of our mind as we continuously add features to the platform
- We work very closely with the product team and pride ourselves on quickly iterating on features from prototypes to A/B tests to eventual release to all users
- It's still early days for this platform, with plenty of challenging and interesting problems to work on
- You'll build extremely large-scale platform products and services, used both by Roku engineers from across the company, and directly by consumers across millions of devices
- Work with Product/Design teams to iterate and build software, taking a concept from ideation to its production deployment and support
- Lead efforts to evaluate new technologies and continue to push for best practices across the entire development life cycle, including code and design reviews
- Managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Participate in Agile development process, including scoping, technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance
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.
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Insights
-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
Company HQ
Newhall, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Anthony Wood
(Founder & 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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