The Walt Disney Company is looking to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally, specifically focusing on creating world-class products and enhancing storytelling through technology. This role is crucial for developing and implementing groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex technical problems for their direct-to-consumer client apps on Roku streaming devices and smart TVs.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of development experience with a client-side development stack, ideally with at least 2 years BrightScript experience
- Experience with MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture
- Proficient in technical design and development of generalized solutions, such as reusable utilities and UI components, and generalized logic that can be consumed by multiple applications
- Demonstrated ability to research and learn new technologies
- Extensive experience creating beautiful, rich, performant user interfaces, including implementing pixel-perfect designs and animations
- Experience working on user interface-level code and knowledge of common patterns, architectures, and approaches to present a data-driven UX to viewers
- Familiarity with development and troubleshooting on set-top boxes or Smart TVs
Responsibilities
- Be a critical member of a team of engineers responsible for building our client app experiences in BrightScript, using the Roku SceneGraph SDK
- Contribute to the development of new application features from on-boarding to browse UI/UX experiences, analytics, video playback UI/UX and much more. If you see it on screen, you’ll likely have a chance to work on it in code
- Have the opportunity to contribute to the development of tools and systems outside of the Roku apps, such as JavaScript- & React-based web tools, gulp build scripts, AWS configurations, and Node.js services
- Work with Roku to vet new hardware, firmware and certification requirements from a client application perspective
- Collaborate closely with our client SDK engineering, design engineering, services engineering teams and product owners to help understand and communicate requirements and device limitations
Other
- Employ a flexible attitude and can work constructively in a diverse team setting
- Value learning and being exposed to new experiences
- Demonstrate determination in finding solutions to complex puzzles
- Have the curiosity to research and learn new technologies
- Care about bringing people closer to their world
