Senior Software Engineer - Software Development Kit

<div class="content-intro"><h2 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #662d91;">Teamwork makes the stream work.</h2> <p> </p> <h3 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><strong>Roku is changing how the world watches TV</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p></div><h3 id="About-the-Role" data-local-id="db3e8cda-289b-44df-843b-8e3ada959b45" data-renderer-start-pos="754"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">About the Role</strong></h3> <p data-renderer-start-pos="770" data-local-id="0a24e396-3628-421e-a090-35845908d0fd">This is a senior software engineering role where you will architect, design, implement and test the run-time and native renderer of Roku's software development kit. You will partner with engineers who build the higher level scripting parts of Roku’s SDK.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1026" data-local-id="af90ebae-af11-428e-83d6-5abff209baef">Roku prides itself in building software and features which run well on our oldest devices, while taking advantage of our latest ones. To this end, the software development kit will need to be designed and implemented from the get go to run well on devices with extremely limited system resources like RAM, Flash and CPU.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1026" data-local-id="af90ebae-af11-428e-83d6-5abff209baef"> </p> <h3 id="What-you’ll-be-doing" data-local-id="54e23ab4-0215-4888-9b9c-f5a1b86e9de1" data-renderer-start-pos="1348"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">What you’ll be doing</strong></h3> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="b395fa15-6238-4c38-9e53-7ce057951696" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1372" data-local-id="1ad2af7c-1054-4d21-904b-5fbaa3582e97">Architect, design, implement and test the run-time and native renderer of Roku's software development kit.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1482" data-local-id="f8d23835-20fb-4efd-8728-617b825d6778">Partner with engineers who build the higher level scripting parts of Roku’s software development kit.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1587" data-local-id="9f310809-dad7-4f36-88ed-c020b1c321ba">Ensure that we can stand behind all APIs exposed by Roku’s software development kit, and manage the evolution of these APIs.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1715" data-local-id="02a348a2-1417-4c55-8eac-9da37c4e9c99">Ensure that the native development kit performs well on low-cost hardware. To this end you will design for and track RAM consumption, rendering frame rate, etc.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1879" data-local-id="db2e2559-4d8f-44a8-bc34-5e96c9070236">Develop tooling which will allow Roku and 3rd party developers to build great optimized and performant applications to run on the Roku platform.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2027" data-local-id="18139802-3fc8-4ef7-8202-19d95ba8add8">Navigate through ambiguous problem spaces and meticulously distill out design choices, trade-offs, and priorities.</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3 id="We’re-Excited-If-You-Have" data-local-id="7f122015-a7c3-46c7-82d6-c06060eba360" data-renderer-start-pos="2145"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">We’re Excited If You Have</strong></h3> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="cc018acc-16d1-4e1a-8d6b-81f90982c160" data-indent-le ... (truncated, view full listing at source)