CTV Developer

5V Video; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

5V Video is partnering with a fast-growing streaming platform and is hiring multiple CTV Developers to scale the service across connected TV devices.

You will build, enhance, and maintain the streaming app across Web, iOS/tvOS, Android/Android TV, Roku, and Smart TVs, collaborating with product, design, QA and backend teams to ship new features and improve playback performance and memory usage on low-powered TV hardware.

Qualifications

• Experience developing across at least 2 CTV/OTT platforms.
• Commercial software development background for consumer video products.
• Understanding of TV hardware limits: performance and memory.
• Experience working in agile teams and owning features end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Build, enhance and maintain the streaming app across a range of CTV and OTT platforms.
• Collaborate with product, design, QA and backend teams to ship new features to multiple devices.
• Optimize playback, memory and performance for lower-powered TV hardware.
• Help roll the service out to new devices and platforms as the business scales.
• Debug device-specific issues and contribute to code quality and best practices.

Skills

CTV development

Cross-platform dev

Agile teamwork

Video streaming knowledge

Tools

React Native for TV

Lightning

Job description

5V Video has partnered with a fast-growing streaming platform that’s grown a lot over the past four years. They’re now hiring multiple CTV Developers to help scale their service across connected TV devices and get it in front of more viewers on more screens.

What you’ll be doing

• Building, enhancing and maintaining the streaming app across a range of CTV and OTT platforms
• Working with product, design, QA and backend teams to ship new features to multiple devices
• Optimising performance, memory and playback for lower-powered TV hardware
• Working closely with video playback: adaptive streaming, DRM, captions and the player experience
• Helping roll the service out to new devices and platforms as the business scales
• Debugging and fixing device-specific issues, and contributing to code quality and best practices

What we’re looking for

• Experience developing across at least 2 CTV/OTT platforms (e.g. Web, iOS/tvOS, Android/Android TV, Roku, Smart TV such as Samsung Tizen or LG webOS)
• A solid commercial background in software development, ideally in a consumer-facing video or streaming product
• A good understanding of the limits of TV hardware: performance, memory, and remote/D-pad navigation
• Comfortable working in an agile team and owning features from build through to release

Nice to have

• Knowledge of video streaming tech (HLS, DASH, DRM such as Widevine, PlayReady or FairPlay)
• Experience with cross-platform CTV frameworks (e.g. React Native for TV, Lightning)
• Experience publishing apps through device or app-store certification