TV React Developer (Roku)

Philo: TV on the Internet (TVoIP)

At Philo, we’re a group of technology and product people who set out to build the future of television, marrying the best in modern technology with the most compelling medium ever invented — in short, we’re building the TV experience that we’ve always wanted for ourselves. In practice this means leveraging cloud delivery, modern tech stacks, machine learning, and hand-crafted app experiences on all of our platforms. We aim to deliver a rock solid experience on the streaming basics,while creating innovative ways for users to engage with their favorite content and discover that perfect show to watch next.

Roku at Philo

The Roku team at Philo is responsible for building our product experience on one of the biggest platforms in streaming TV: Roku streaming devices and Roku-enabled smart TVs. Philo’s Roku app has been a crucial platform for us since the Philo service first launched – Roku was our first “10-foot” (streaming TV device) platform and is one of our largest platforms by minutes watched. Historically, Roku has also been one of our primary platforms for prototyping nascent Philo features.

We’re a small autonomous team building apps with high engagement and millions of installs, which collectively are responsible for a huge fraction of the billions of minutes watched on Philo each year. We are passionate about crafting the best possible UX to connect our users with the content they love, providing a seamless viewing experience while surprising them with new features and capabilities. We’re highly focused on optimizing the 10-Foot Experience, and you will directly contribute to that effort. By joining the Roku team, you will be working on TV platforms at a TV company (📺📺📺📺👩‍💻📺📺📺📺), allowing you to make a large impact on Philo product design and development.

Recent projects on our Roku platform have included:

• Building Philo’s next generation TV guide – a heavily virtualized, and highly performant modern take on the classic live TV browsing experience
• Creating new ways to “watch while you browse” with picture-in-picture video and full screen overlays
• Experimenting with autoplaying video and dynamic browsing experiences across collections of show and movie tiles
• Creating a Storybook inspired development environment for our React-like Brightscript UI component library
• Building a platform that allows us to effectively deploy, monitor, and rapidly iterate on experiments
• Utilizing new BrightScript features like classes and types to augment the native language
• Adding new Rooibos unit tests to our continuous integration pipeline

Philo engineers own what they build from start to finish and are passionate about continuously delivering delightful features to a huge user base. If you’re a Roku developer who cares deeply about writing quality code, using the latest tools & technologies to push the envelope of what’s possible on the platform across a variety of form factors and viewing experiences, we would love to talk to you!

As a Roku Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Building the Philo experience on Roku devices
• Running experiments to monitor and analyze the impact of new features
• Contributing to UX design decisions using your domain expertise
• Helping the Philo frontend team grow

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Experience with the Roku platform, including SceneGraph and other Roku APIs
• Familiarity with the Roku ecosystem, including capabilities, limitations, and best practices across devices
• Familiarity with React, Redux concepts
• 4+ years of frontend or UI experience
• 2+ years of Roku development experience
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field 

A strong candidate might also have one or more of these:

• Experience with GraphQL-based APIs
• Development experience with video playback, cross-device interoperability (e.g. casting), or other 10-foot, connected TV platforms in general (e.g. Roku, Samsung or LG Smart TVs, FireTV, Android TV or Apple TV).

More about Philo

At Philo, we’re a company that puts people first—both our subscribers and our team. Our philosophy is to empower our colleagues to do their best work while supporting each other in pursuing shared goals. We value pragmatism, pride in our work, and passion. Transparency and openness are fundamental to our company culture. We are committed to diversity and inclusion as we grow the Philo team and shape the future of TV. We believe that a diverse set of voices and perspectives on our t