Roku Developer at TEKsystems

Company Domain: Media & Entertainment

Position: Roku Developer

Location: 100% remote (based in Burbank, CA)

Contract Duration: 18 months

Top Skills:

• 7+ YOE with a client-side development stack, ideally with 2+ YOE with BrightScript

• Experience with MVVM architecture

• Proficient in technical design and development of generalized solutions, such as reusable utilities and UI components, and generalized logic that can be consumed by multiple applications

• Experience mentoring junior level team members

Job Description

Our client is looking for an experienced, lead-level software engineer for the Roku Client Application Engineering Team, where you’ll be part of the team that builds our Direct-to-Consumer client apps on Roku streaming devices and smart TVs. We’re looking for an engineer who, ideally, has experience in BrightScript and is ready to write client apps that provide the best experiences for our viewers.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Be a critical member of a team of engineers responsible for building our client app experiences in BrightScript, using the Roku SceneGraph SDK

• Contribute to the development of new application features from on-boarding to browse UI/UX experiences, analytics, video playback UI/UX and much more. If you see it on screen, you’ll likely have a chance to work on it in code

• Have the opportunity to contribute to the development of tools and systems outside of the Roku apps, such as JavaScript- & React-based web tools, gulp build scripts, AWS configurations, and Node.js services

• Work with Roku to vet new hardware, firmware and certification requirements from a client application perspective

• Collaborate closely with our client SDK engineering, design engineering, services engineering teams and product owners to help understand and communicate requirements and device limitations

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience creating beautiful, rich, performant user interfaces, including implementing pixel-perfect designs and animations

• Experience working on user interface-level code and knowledge of common patterns, architectures, and approaches to present a data-driven UX to viewers

• Familiarity with development and troubleshooting on set-top boxes or Smart TVs

• Experience working on a range of devices with varying performance and capabilities

• Experience with configuration-driven development

• Experience with performance optimization and feature degradation techniques

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $80.00/hr.

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position will be accepting applications until Dec 10, 2024.

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.