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Professional Search Group is leading a hiring effort working with a dynamic media & entertainment company that is looking for an Senior Video Player Engineer, Roku. This DIRECT HIRE role is fully remote working onshore in the USA. We cannot sponsor visas at this time.
Details on the Role:
Sr. Video Player Engineer, Roku to design and implement core Video Player features for consumer facing applications across all of the company networks. We are responsible for delivering major live events on TV - including football championship, baseball championship, international soccer games, political events, pro fighting, football playoffs, movie award shows and more. This role is essential to providing our digital audience a great experience every time they press play and will be key to developing industry leading playback performance. As a senior Video Player Engineer, you will be working in an extremely fast paced environment where you’ll be expected to take ownership of building video playback solutions and provide deep technical expertise across the entire software delivery process.
Idea of your responsibilities:
- Work closely with Engineering/Product/Project Management and Backend Technology Services teams to build Video Player features that contribute to company video streaming initiatives
- Conduct the design, architecture and implementation of player features on Roku
- Work on performance, scalability, security, architecture and engineering best practices
- Provide technical specifications and documentation
- Collaborate with team members to deliver software using agile methodologies
- Willingness to stay up-to-date with the latest in emerging technologies/trends on Roku
Required Skills:
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Excellent programming skills in BrightScript
- Deep understanding of SceneGraph framework and task/render thread optimization
- Experience with video streaming technologies (HLS)
- Experience with video QoE metrics, ABR algorithms, Roku Media Player
- Experience with analytics platforms (Conviva, Segment)
- Demonstrable knowledge of building responsive user experiences
- Experience with RESTful APIs, unit testing and end-end testing
- Git, Jenkins, Docker, Agile methodologies
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with an ability to work in a highly collaborative environment
- Preferred Skills:
- Excellent documentation skills, UML diagrams a plus
- Accomplish engineering and organization missions by completing related results as needed
- Support and develop software engineers by providing coaching and educational opportunities
- Participate in 3rd tier on-call rotation support for the services you and your team develop and operate
Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is: $121,500.00-161,000.00 annually for California, Washington, New York City and Westchester County, NY. $101,200.00-134,100.00 annually for Colorado. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.
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