Roku App Engineer - 10-Foot TV UI & D2C

5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 123,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is seeking a Product Software Engineer II for the ABC News Mobile and Living Room Device team to build our Direct-to-Consumer Roku app and related TV experiences.

The role emphasizes BrightScript and Roku SceneGraph development, delivering high‑quality client applications for 10‑foot devices, while collaborating with design, backend, and services teams. Onsite four days per week in New York, NY, with opportunities across adjacent tools and web services.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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
• Collaborate closely with backend and mobile engineers to ensure parity across implementations and platforms

Job description

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is seeking a Product Software Engineer II for the ABC News Mobile and Living Room Device team to build our Direct-to-Consumer Roku app and related TV experiences.

The role emphasizes BrightScript and Roku SceneGraph development, delivering high‑quality client applications for 10‑foot devices, while collaborating with design, backend, and services teams. Onsite four days per week in New York, NY, with opportunities across adjacent tools and web services.