Senior Roku Developer

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We are looking for a Senior Roku Developer to join a Player Engineering team working on a large-scale streaming platform.

This team is responsible for building and evolving the playback experience across a wide range of OTT platforms, delivering high-quality video streaming to millions of viewers globally. The role focuses on developing and maintaining Roku applications with a strong emphasis on video playback performance, advertising integrations, and user experience.

You will work closely with backend streaming teams, product, QA, and other client platform engineers to deliver reliable, high-performance playback experiences for live and on-demand content.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Roku applications using BrightScript
• Implement and optimize video playback workflows for live and VOD streaming
• Integrate and maintain advertising solutions using Roku Advertising Framework (RAF)
• Ensure a high-quality playback experience, including startup time, buffering behaviour, and error handling
• Work closely with streaming platform teams to integrate with DRM, CDN delivery, and manifest formats (HLS/DASH)
• Diagnose and resolve playback issues across device models and OS versions
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical design decisions for the player ecosystem
• Support monitoring, logging, and debugging of playback behaviour in production environments

Requirements

• Strong experience developing applications for Roku
• Expertise in BrightScript
• Solid understanding of video streaming technologies, including HLS, adaptive bitrate streaming, and media playback pipelines
• Experience integrating advertising workflows, ideally using Roku Advertising Framework (RAF)
• Strong debugging and performance analysis skills
• Experience working in Agile engineering teams
• Ability to collaborate effectively with backend, product, and QA teams

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with DRM systems and OTT authentication workflows
• Experience with OTT video platforms or large-scale streaming services
• Familiarity with analytics and player instrumentation
• Experience with SSAI and CSAI advertising models

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