Senior Software Engineer, Roku
iOS
5+ days a week in office (Milton Rd, Milton, Cambridge)
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Be an early applicant
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
5+ days a week in office (Milton Rd, Milton, Cambridge)
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
- Professional iOS development experience, ideally with Swift and/or SwiftUI
- Strong experience shipping and maintaining production apps in the App Store
- Proficiency in using AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) and experience with prompt engineering
- Experience working with IoT or networked device interactions is a big plus
- Familiarity with BLE, webs sockets, or MQTT protocols is a bonus
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in agile environments
- Proficient in the iOS development toolset: Xcode, Instruments, Simulator
- Strong understanding of iOS architecture, UI/UX patterns, and app lifecycle
- Excellent communication and debugging skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s/PHD in Computer Science or related technical field
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, iOS on the Roku Mobile App team, you will help shape the future of how millions of users interact with their Roku Streaming Devices
- You’ll work on building intuitive, reliable, and highly performant iOS experiences that allow customers to monitor and control Roku streaming devices from TVs to Players and beyond
- This role offers the opportunity to work across a modern, evolving tech stack including Swift, SwiftUI, and Apple’s latest frameworks
- You’ll collaborate closely with design, product, and cross-functional engineering teams to bring innovative features to life, improve performance, and make every day smart home interactions seamless
- You should be motivated by curiosity and initiative, eager to take ownership of features and run with them, while remaining grounded in a team-first, collaborative mindset
- You will be joining a talented, high-performance team with a history of delivery. We are looking for someone who can help us keep up this pace and continue delivering high-quality app as we grow
- With so many people using our products globally, we’ve become well-known for products that “just work” right out of the box and integrate almost by magic. That doesn’t happen by accident, which is why we are committed to making sure our products aren’t just intuitive, they’re obvious
- Design and build advanced applications and features for the iOS platform
- Integrate with cloud APIs and local device communication protocols to control smart devices
- Write and maintain tests using XCTest/XCUITest frameworks
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features for mobile devices, optimizing for touch experiences. Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code
- Debug, profile, and optimize app performance across a range of iOS devices
- Participate in design and code reviews, helping elevate code quality across the team
- Stay up to date with Apple platform capabilities and propose how we can leverage them
- Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, and release delivery
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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