Software Engineer II - ABC News Mobile and Living Room Device

The Walt Disney Company; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is on the lookout for a Software Engineer II to join their innovative team focused on enhancing the ABC News Direct-to-Consumer client app for Roku and smart TVs. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with talented engineers to create seamless user experiences. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in client-side development, particularly with BrightScript, and will contribute to building engaging interfaces and optimizing performance across various devices. If you're passionate about creating impactful applications and eager to push the boundaries of technology, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Medical benefits

Financial benefits

Bonus opportunities

Long-term incentive units

Qualifications

• 3+ years of client-side development experience, ideally with BrightScript.
• Proficient in MVVM architecture and reusable UI components.

Responsibilities

• Build client app experiences in BrightScript using Roku SceneGraph SDK.
• Develop new features from onboarding to UI/UX experiences and video playback.

Skills

BrightScript

MVVM architecture

JavaScript

UI/UX design

Performance optimization

Asynchronous programming

Unit testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Roku SceneGraph SDK

AWS

DevOps

gulp

Jenkins

Job description

Software Engineer II - ABC News Mobile and Living Room Device

Job ID 10118452 Location New York, New York, United States / Santa Monica, California, United States / Glendale, California, United States / San Francisco, California, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States Business Disney Entertainment Date posted Apr. 18, 2025

Job Summary:
We’re seeking a Software Engineer II for the ABC News Mobile and Living Room Device team, where you’ll be part of the team that builds our ABC News Direct-to-Consumer client app on Roku streaming devices and smart TVs. We’re looking for an engineer who, ideally, has experience in BrightScript, SceneGraph, and is ready to write client apps that provide the best experiences for our viewers.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• 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. If you see it on screen, you’ll likely have a chance to work on it in code
• 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

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications at a Journey-level

• Experience creating beautiful, rich, performant user interfaces, including implementing pixel-perfect designs and animations
• Experience working on user interface-level code and knowledge of common patterns, architectures, and approaches to present a data-driven UX to viewers
• Familiarity with development and troubleshooting on set-top boxes or Smart TVs
• Experience working on a range of devices with varying performance and capabilities
• Experience with configuration-driven development
• Experience with performance optimization and feature degradation techniques
• Experience creating and extending templated controls, and writing custom control
• Experience with asynchronous and concurrent code
• Experience with unit testing and related patterns
• Experience with JavaScript client- and server-side development
• Experience with DevOps, gulp scripts, Jenkins and AWS

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or better in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent job experience.

The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles is $114,900 to $154,100 per year and in New York or Seattle is $120,300 to $161,300 per year, and in San Francisco is $125,800 to $168,700 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.