Senior Roku Software Engineer

Online TV streaming Giant creates entertainment experiences that drive conversation and culture around the world. Through television, film, digital media, live events, merchandise and solutions, our brands connect with diverse, young and the young at heart audiences in more than 180 countries.

Online TV streaming Giant is the leading free streaming television service in America, delivering 200+ live and original channels and thousands of on-demand movies in partnership with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. It  is available on all mobile, web and connected TV streaming devices and millions of viewers tune in each month to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestyle, and trending digital series. Headquartered in West Hollywood, Pluto TV has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago and Berlin.

The team has the privilege of entertaining millions of people. We are entrepreneurs looking to revolutionize the future of TV. While our planet is small, our ambition is boundless. The stakes don’t get much higher.

• Interview process that respects people and their time
• Professional and open IT community
• Internal meet-ups and resources for knowledge sharing
• Time for recovery and relaxation
• Bright online and offline events
• Opportunity to become part of our internal volunteer community

• Roku software development using Brightscript and the Scene Graph framework
• Understand the limitations of Roku platform and understand how to optimize the app to improve performance
• Work and collaborate in teams with developers, testers, product managers, etc.
• Familiar with Jira, Confluence tools and communicate tasking estimation and progress regularly to a project manager, Scrum Master
• Be capable of committing to deliver timely results
• Identify bottlenecks using Roku development tools and work on performance improvements and troubleshooting
• Work in an Agile, iterative development process
• Attend and actively participate in team ceremonies
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies related to the Roku platform

• 2+ years as a Roku developer and strong programming language and scripting skills
• Proficiency with BrightScript and Scene Graph Framework
• Deeply understand threads in Scene Graph and how to optimize rendezvous between task thread and render thread
• Familiar with Roku native UI components like rowlist, markuplist and markupGrid
• Familiar with Video Node in Roku and an understanding of how to debug streaming related issues
• Strong Roku debugging skills
• Ability to prioritize workload effectively
• Comfortable prioritizing and leading multiple initiatives and analyses, and in moving with speed through each
• Good self-management skills, and an ability to stay focused and motivated with little intervention from others
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executing hands-on analytics analysis, and developing quality presentation materials
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience