Senior Software Engineer, Roku
Roku TV
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Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
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Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
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
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or computer engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant fields
- 8+ years of relevant software development experience
- 4+ years C/C++ coding experience
- System-on-a-chip (SoC) development and integration preferred
- Experience developing/debugging on Linux or Android-based embedded platforms
- Good understanding of Linux system and kernel concepts, multithreading primitives, Linux tools, libraries, and open-source development
- Experience with streaming audio/video platforms, graphics, and industry standards
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced engineering environment
- Have an ability to communicate with candor and effectiveness
- Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams
What the job involves
- We are looking for a talented engineer to join our Products Team working on the Roku TV program! You will be responsible for the core tasks ranging from Roku OS feature development, SoC partner collaboration, third-party API integration, code maintenance, design scalability solutions to help onboard new factories, supporting our QA and Channel certification teams, and everything else involved in our end-to-end product development and release cycles
- Roku OS feature development
- Code maintenance and scalability solution design and development
- Partner with internal QA and development teams
- System-on-a-Chip (SoC) integration and platform bring-up
- Third-party API integration
- Working end-to-end product development and release cycles
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
- Free snacks and access to the company fitness center
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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