Sr. Roku Brightscript Engineer

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

Job Description

Our Media Group portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.

Our streaming video SDK is at the forefront of technology, leveraging modern video codecs, adaptive bitrate streaming, low-latency streaming, and support for live streaming. We ensure seamless playback across various platforms, including web browsers, smart TVs, gaming consoles, and streaming media devices. This compatibility allows us to reach a wide audience and provide exceptional streaming experiences regardless of the device or operating system.

Join us as a Roku Brightscript Software Engineer as we redefine the future of streaming video technology. We work on Roku devices and together we will shape our culture, solve technical problems, and create extraordinary streaming experiences that captivate audiences worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and design features that are of high quality and maintainable using good coding practices.
• Help management in providing reliable estimates for pieces of work and assist the team in achieving it while providing updates.
• Ensure and contribute to high performance of execution and provide a good user experience.
• Contribute to integrations against the Roku suite of devices.
• Help ensure we provide a good playback experience across the different devices we support and help improve performance.
• Mentor junior team members and provide constructive feedback such as in code reviews to maintain high code quality best practices.
• Contribute ideas on how to improve and maintain best practices, coding standards and documentation among the team.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry standards and emerging technologies and be able to provide solutions to improve our products.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience developing products in Brightscript in either front-end and/or backend.
• Experienced working with Roku development tools and video playback components, such as roVideoPlayer or SceneGraph video nodes.
• High proficiency in Brightscript is recommended.
• Experience working on video playback technologies (such as HLS, DASH, and streaming video monitoring tools such as Conviva)
• Solid understanding of the underlying execution and be able to identify issues and improve overall performance and memory consumption.
• Good soft skills involving communication and ability to collaborate with multiple teams in a global setting.
• Excellent problem-solving skills,