Senior Software Engineer â, React in Cardiff

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.

About the team: The Ads Customer Interfaces team develops full-stack web application services, APIs, and UIs that provide a unified approach to interfacing with internal and external customers across Roku’s suite of advertising products. Our mission is to provide the best-in-class user experience and service while aiming to delight users of our products by making their jobs easier and allowing them to focus on their customers instead of getting bogged down by tedious business processes.

About the role: Roku continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television and streaming media worldwide, continued success stems from experienced software engineers like you developing core features for the Roku platform. Our new Senior Software Engineer will be contributing extensively to our container orchestrated platform, bringing together some of the latest client and server-side technologies to develop a truly scalable and robust solution. To be successful, you’ll need extensive experience in building reliable and scalable cloud-based solutions, a strong background in software engineering, and an appetite to keep on top of modern software practices.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design, develop, and deliver high-quality web applications and back-end services.
• Work as part of a high-functioning team consisting of UX designers, software engineers, dev-ops, quality assurance, and product management.
• Work both independently and paired with other team members to ensure efficient delivery of prioritised features.
• Take part in the planning and refinement of features along with the team to come up with innovative and collaborative designs.
• Develop new features and write test cases to ensure the quality of your code.
• Work with CI/CD tools to ensure that all software developed adheres to both quality and scaling requirements.
• Take a role in continuously improving our software delivery process, making it as efficient as possible, reducing wasteful activities, and creating value.
• See a feature go all the way from design stage to being deployed into customer-facing environments.
• Demonstrate the ability to dig deep to find solutions to challenging problems affecting our users.

We’re excited if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of relevant software development experience such as React.
• 3 years of working with cloud-based technology such as AWS and GCP.
• Experience of building large scale and low latency distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimisation techniques, and object-oriented programming.
• Experience with distributed caching, SQL/NoSQL, and other databases.
• Experience of container-based orchestration such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience using infrastructure as code software tools such as Terraform.
• In-depth understanding of CI/CD and the tools used to implement them such as Jenkins.
• Experience with software repository tools such as GitLab and GitHub.
• Experience with productivity tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• A good understanding of Agile practices.
• Ability to accurately estimate software tasks and work to schedule.

Benefits: Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension). Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving work and life needs.

The Roku Culture: Roku is a great place for people who want to work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the company’s success rather than their own. We try to surround ourselves with people who are great at their jobs, who are easy to work with, and who keep their egos in check. We appreciate a sense of humour. We believe a fewer number of very talented folks can do more for less cost than a larger number of less talented teams. We’re independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly, move fast, and accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration.