Senior Software Engineer, Payments Platform

roku; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 388,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity awards

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Parental leave

Wellness benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Roku Pay is shaping the monetization platform for billions of viewers. You will lead the architecture and implementation of a highly available, fault-tolerant billing system across AWS/GCP, writing a large portion of code and driving end-to-end initiatives.

Expect to evaluate new technologies, design shared layers, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, and Ops to deliver resilient services for streaming, APIs, and batch workloads.

Qualifications

• 10+ years architecting and running large-scale services in subscriptions/payments.
• Expertise in tax, payment, renewals, invoicing workflows.
• Advanced hands-on with AI-assisted coding tools and delegating integration.
• Experience building streaming, API, notifications, and batch workloads.
• Strong architectural design and track record of high availability.

Responsibilities

• Lead evaluation and implementation of new technologies and designs.
• Leverage AI coding tools to accelerate development while ensuring quality.
• Build and ship features using AI agents and review output.
• Engage in architectural discussions and influence roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership to drive platform availability and scalability.
• Set engineering excellence standards with hands-on leadership.
• Own building platform features with product and other teams.
• Design shared architectural layers and libraries for reuse.
• Review technical specs and provide feedback.
• Advocate best practices across developers, QA, and ops.
• Participate in code/design reviews and code ~80% of the time.

Skills

Large-scale services

Subscriptions/payments

AI-assisted coding

Architecture design

High availability

CI/CD & code review

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Job description

Teamwork makes the stream work. Roku is changing how the world watches TV Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers. From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

About the team

Roku Pay is one of Roku's core monetization streams and is well-positioned for significant growth. Roku Pay encompasses Pricing, Billing, and Payments ecosystems and many other integrations that strive to render a great experience for our partners and consumers. We are rebuilding our platform to support our growth plans in both domestic and international markets. In this role, you will envision, architect, build, and run a highly available, fault ‑ tolerant, efficient, and performant platform that scales to billions of viewers.

About the role

In this role, you will lead the architecture and implementation of a highly available, fault ‑ tolerant, and performant billing platform that scales to billions of viewers across AWS/GCP, owning key initiatives end ‑ to ‑ end while coding roughly 80% of the time. You'll evaluate and adopt new technologies, design shared architectural layers (queuing, event systems, shared memory), and collaborate across Product, Engineering, QA, and Ops to deliver resilient services spanning streaming, APIs, notifications, and batch workloads. As a hands ‑ on technical leader, you will set engineering excellence by example, drive CI/CD automation and platform reuse, influence roadmap through cross ‑ team architectural discussions, and consistently turn complex requirements into reliable, well ‑ documented systems.

For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $186,000 - $388,000 annually. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location. This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and designs. Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges
• Leverage agentic AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate development while ensuring code quality and production readiness
• Build and ship features using AI coding agents, delegating implementation, reviewing output, and owning the quality of what makes it to production
• Use agentic AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) as part of your daily workflow, delegating tasks to AI, reviewing and refining AI-generated code, and integrating it into production
• Engage in architectural discussions across multiple teams, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives
• Provide technical leadership and expertise to drive platform capabilities to ensure high availability and scalability
• Demonstrate engineering excellence practice by setting expectations and leading by hands‑on examples
• Own building platform features, driving directly with product and other engineering teams
• Own design and implementation of shared architectural layers (e.g., queuing, event systems, shared memory clusters) and libraries that can be used across teams
• Review technical specification documents, provide feedback, and collaborate for best‑in‑class solution
• Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions - developers, QA, and infrastructure/ops
• Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse
• Be actively involved in code/design reviews and expected to code 80% of the time

We're excited if you have

• 10+ years of experience in architecting, implementing, and running large‑scale services, specifically in subscriptions, payment, order, and billing domains
• Expertise in various subscription or payment flows, including tax, payment, purchase, renewal, dunning, cancellation, repurchase, and invoicing.
• Advanced hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted and agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) is required, including the ability to effectively delegate, review, and integrate AI‑generated code within a production workflow
• Experience building systems of various workloads - streaming, API, notifications, batch, etc.
• Strong architectural design experience, great track record of building a highly available an