About the team

Roku Pay is one of the core monetization streams at Roku and well suited to ramp up on a significant growth path. Roku Pay encompasses Pricing, Billing and Payments ecosystems and many other integrations that strive to render a great experience for our partners and consumers. We are on a journey to rebuild our platform to support our growth plans both in domestic and international markets. As part of this exercise, you will have an opportunity to build out a very scalable, performant and available system that can influence Roku’s growth path tremendously, while being on the bleeding edge of technologies crafting micro services, scaling cloud deployments, etc.

"For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $186,000 - $388,000 annually.

Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location.

This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off."

About the role

• Lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and designs. Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges.
• Engage in architectural discussions across multiple teams, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives.
• Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive platform capabilities to ensure high availability and scalability.
• Demonstrate engineering excellence practice by setting expectation and lead by hands-on examples.
• Own building platform features, driving directly with product and other engineering teams
• Review technical specification documents created by the development team and mentor team members.
• Own design and implementation of shared architectural layers (e.g. queuing, event systems, shared memory clusters) and libraries that can be used across teams
• Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions – developers, QA and infrastructure/ops
• Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse
• Be actively involved in code/design reviews, but expected to code 70% of the time

Were excited if you have

• 15+ years of experience in large scale backend services, specifically within payment system architecture and implementation, or related professional industry experience.
• Good understanding with various payment flow is required, such as payment processing, card tokenization, payment gateway integration, token vault management, etc.
• Good understanding of different payment processing flow, such as sync vs async, and online vs offline.
• Familiar with different compliance standards, such as SOX, PCI, 3DS, etc.
• Experience around RFP (Request for Proposal) Process, proven ability to translate business needs to vendor requirement, performance deep technical evaluation on 3rd parties vendor, and to help business selecting the right vendor to scale with the company.
• Strong architectural design experience, great track record of building a highly available and scalable payment platform.
• Experience with multi-cloud solution is a plus, ability to offer technical guidance to design, deploy and scale application across multiple cloud environments.
• Strong expertise with cloud solutions/systems across cloud with AWS or GCP is a must.
• Strong experience in designing, leading highly complex transactional systems
• Strong passion for technology and adding value to the bottomline through technology.
• Strong expertise with Payments and billing systems is required
• Strong passion & expertise with building and adopting CI/CD pipelines

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