Senior Full Stack Engineer, Roku
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4+ days a week in office
Convenient & affordable TV streaming players
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Convenient & affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
4+ 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
- The role requires strong technical judgment, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to move from concept through delivery in a fast-paced environment
- We’re looking for curious, adaptable builders who can show how they’ve used AI or automation to move faster, raise the bar, and scale their impact
- We value your AI skills if you have built fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain — coding harnesses like Claude Code or Cursor, MCP servers, custom skills, or agent frameworks — and can describe projects where you shipped real work with these tools
- You know how to drive an agent, verify its output, and ramp on an unfamiliar codebase with an agent helping you
- Proven full stack engineering experience with production web applications
- Strong skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and Node.js
- Experience with backend development in Python or Go and frameworks such as FastAPI
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, and REST API design and integration
- Experience with test-driven development and CI/CD workflows
- Experience integrating AI technologies such as OpenAI, LangChain, or RAG pipelines
- Understanding of authentication and authorization approaches including OpenID and SAML
- Experience deploying cloud-native services on AWS with containerized infrastructure and Kubernetes
- Experience with message queuing systems such as RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka
- Demonstrated AI/agentic-tooling fluency per the section above
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Communications, or a related field
What the job involves
- Roku’s Developer Platform team builds tools and embedded capabilities that help channel partners develop, tune, and debug high-quality apps
- The team works across web applications, APIs, and platform services to improve the end-to-end developer experience and support partner success at scale
- Roku is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join the Developer Platform team and build AI-enabled web applications and services that improve app development and management workflows
- This role will design and deliver full stack solutions that support external partners and internal stakeholders across the Roku ecosystem. You will contribute across frontend and backend systems, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and usability
- You will build and evolve APIs and microservices, and help integrate modern AI capabilities into production experiences where they add clear user value
- You will join a high-performing team with a strong delivery culture and a commitment to building practical, high-impact developer tools
- At Roku, we don’t just use AI, we work with it. AI agents and smart tools help power drafts, analysis, and repetitive workflows, while our people bring direction, judgment, and accountability
- Design and build full stack web applications using React and Node.js
- Integrate AI capabilities including LLM-driven experiences where appropriate
- Develop APIs and microservices that connect tools, data, and platform workflows
- Deploy, scale, and monitor services in cloud environments using Kubernetes
- Build robust, highly available backend and frontend systems for developer-facing use cases
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver partner and internal tooling
- Troubleshoot production issues and improve performance and reliability
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices
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. Then, after successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released. In 2026, it was announced that media giant FOX would acquire Roku, which the companies say will create the third largest player in US TV by share of viewing.
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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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