Staff Software Developer

Warner Bros. Discovery; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading entertainment company in Ottawa is seeking a Staff Software Developer for Roku. This role involves leading technical efforts, mentoring a team, and ensuring high-quality software practices. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in software development, particularly with mobile applications and web frameworks like React Native. This is an excellent opportunity to make significant contributions in an inclusive and innovative environment.

Benefits

Career defining opportunities

Curated benefits

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• 8 years of software development experience with team leadership.
• Extensive experience in modern web frameworks.
• Demonstrated success in high-quality software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical efforts to build Roku streaming applications.
• Act as a technical leader and mentor for a development team.
• Ensure adherence to high quality software engineering practices.

Skills

Software development experience

React Native

TypeScript

Mobile app development

Communication skills

Education

BS in Computer Science or related degree

Job description

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are

When we say the stuff dreams are made of were not just referring to the world of wizards dragons and superheroes or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBDs vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands are the storytellers bringing our characters to life the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating whats next

From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers across the globe WBD offers career defining opportunities thoughtfully curated benefits and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported here you are celebrated here you can thrive.

At HBO Max storytelling takes center stage. Were one of the worlds most iconic entertainment brands home to bold originals and unforgettable characters. While audiences binge award-winning content breaking news and sports around the clock our teams stay busy at work creating whats next in streaming. From Succession Euphoria and The Sopranos to global franchises like Game of Thrones and Harry Potter our content sparks conversation and shapes culture.

HBO Max delivers boundary-pushing stories across genres and platforms connecting millions of viewers across 90 countries globally and were just getting started. Were home to the most talked about shows and movies granting audiences access to the worlds of HBO Harry Potter DC Warner Bros. ID Adult Swim A24 and more. Turn your streaming obsession into a career were hiring!

About the Team and Role

The Global Customer Experience organizations mission is to engage and delight millions of passionate customers across the globe by delivering Warner Bros. Discoverys core streaming applications on all devices and platforms. The development team responsible for the Roku platform is a major part of that mission.

The Job

As a Staff Software Developer Roku you will lead technical efforts to build out world-class streaming video applications across for the Roku platform the number one streaming platform in North America!

The Daily

In this role youll have technical ownership of major features and product initiatives for our Roku applications. Your focus will be on shipping : everything from brand new features to bug fixes. Youll be successful in this role if you can take an undefined problem statement work with a cross functional team to turn it into a concrete well-scoped technical plan and then deliver a high-quality solution in a consistent and predictable way. This requires strong technical and non-technical communication skills and deep knowledge of the client-centric application development lifecycle. In this role youll be expected to make significant individual contributions but youll also act as a technical leader on the team. Youll mentor and guide other engineers in their day-to-day work. Youll ensure the team is following high quality software engineering practices - continuous integration effective test coverage automated testing positive and constructive code reviews and low friction development environments. Finally as a leader in the engineering organization youll model and evangelize a positive inclusive and constructive way of working for your team.

The Essentials

• 8 years of software development experience including leading a team of developers from technical perspective removing blockers and effective delivery.
• Extensive experience in one or more of the following : React Native a modern web framework (i.e. Angular Vue Svelte React etc) TypeScript Mobile app development.
• Extensive experience in building testing shipping and maintaining highly performant consumer applications.
• Demonstrated success in working with a cross functional team to deliver high quality software in an iterative predictable and sustainable way.
• Demonstrated experience in working effectively with ambiguous or uncertain requirements.
• Demonstrated success in evangelizing for high quality software development practices on a team - appropriate test coverage automation CI / CD etc.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and experience in effectively communicating with both technical and non-technical job staff.
• BS in Computer Science or related degree or equivalent work experience.

Nice to Haves

• Experience developing for connected TVs Roku or other streaming devices BrightScript and SceneGraph.
• Experience developing an application in a resource constrained environment (e.g limited GPU CPU Memory).
• Demonstrated success in rapidly learning new technologies languages or frameworks.
• Passionate about performance and creating client applications with amazing user experiences.

How We Get Things Done

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit without regard to race color religion national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression age mental or physical disability and genetic information marital status citizenship status military status protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If youre a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and / or recruitment process please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.