Software Development Engineer - Roku

Job Description

Software Development Engineer II - Roku (D+ Team)
Overview

Software Development Engineer II - Roku, D+ Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team:

We are part of Core Streaming products group for Direct-2-Consumer business and responsible for building and maintaining video streaming Mobile & OTT applications for Discovery Plus platform. Our front-end teams build user experience for search, catalogue, video streaming, personalization, subscriptions, payments and much more.

The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable Roku apps that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a key influencer in your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers.

Responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Build product features in close collaboration with product and business mandates
• Contribute to the feature roadmap of the Android ecosystem of devices
• Advocate best practices for App development and lay down best coding practices
• Work with internal and external stakeholders in developing and designing the app.
• Initiate, lead and execute work on proof of concepts and help identify the ways to scale/integrate them in the app
• Own all aspects of the product development from concept, and drive it through development, testing, acceptance, adoption, and iterative changes
• Carry out engineering development with a strong focus on error handling, performance monitoring and metrics across the app. Some of the key metrics are Performance Uptime, Re-Buffering rates, Time Spent on the app, App Store Rating among other measures of product stability and excellence.

Qualifications

What to Bring:
• 4 - 7 years of overall experience in application development with 2+ years on Roku Applications development using Brightscript.
• Hands-on experience in building modular apps with principles such as TDD, dependency injection, and deep understanding of contemporary JavaScript framework (React, jQuery).
• Familiar with Web Service Integration (REST, JSON) and REST concepts
• Experience in DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring & incident management
• Strong computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Self-confident self-starter – proactive in setting and meeting goals, with limited supervision
• Good verbal & written communication skills

What We Offer:
• A Great Place to work
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d99oqk-18-116-239-195-42 in your application.