Roku TV Software Engineer II: Immersive UX

Disney Cruise Line - The Walt Disney Company; New York (NY); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology in New York, NY is seeking a Software Engineer II for the ABC News Mobile and Living Room Device team to build the ABC News Direct-to-Consumer client app on Roku streaming devices and smart TVs.

We are looking for an engineer with BrightScript experience, MVVM skills, and a focus on delivering high-quality UI, performance, and features across set-top boxes and smart TVs.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of development experience with a client-side development stack, ideally with some BrightScript experience.
• Experience with MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture.
• Under the guidance of more senior engineers, candidates will be expected to be proficient in the use of reusable utilities and UI components, and generalized logic that can be consumed by multiple applications.

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.
• Have the opportunity to contribute to the development of tools and systems outside of the Roku apps, such as JavaScript- & React-based web tools, gulp build scripts, AWS configurations, and Node.js services
• 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

Skills

BrightScript

MVVM

UI components

JavaScript

DevOps

AWS

Roku SceneGraph SDK

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology in New York, NY is seeking a Software Engineer II for the ABC News Mobile and Living Room Device team to build the ABC News Direct-to-Consumer client app on Roku streaming devices and smart TVs.

We are looking for an engineer with BrightScript experience, MVVM skills, and a focus on delivering high-quality UI, performance, and features across set-top boxes and smart TVs.