About the role

This is a senior software engineering role where you will have the opportunity to design Roku’s next generation native development kit. You will own its architecture, roadmap and implementation, and will partner with engineering leads and managers who build Roku’s system UI and applications, and other SDKs on top of the native development kit. 

Roku prides itself in building software and features which run well on our oldest devices, while taking advantage of our latest ones. To this end, the native development kit will need to be designed and implemented from the get go to run well on devices with extremely limited system resources like RAM, Flash and CPU.

This is is a highly visible role and you will directly report technical direction and progress at the executive level. This requires a very strong technical leader with experience in the development of consumer electronics devices. The right person for this role will have ability to collaborate well with engineering and partner teams.

For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $178,000 and $659,000 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.

What you’ll be doing

• Technically lead our native development kit engineering team. Own its architecture, roadmap and implementation
• Jointly with a small team of engineers to implement proof of concepts, and the framework parts in the native development kit
• Partner with engineering leads and managers who build Roku’s system UI and applications, and other SDKs on top of the native development kit
• Present technical direction and progress to executives, and program and partner management
• Ensure that we can stand behind all APIs exposed by the native development kit, and manage the evolution of these APIs
• Ensure that the native development kit performs well on low-cost hardware. To this end you will design for and track RAM consumption, rendering frame rate, etc
• Develop tooling which will allow Roku and 3rd party developers to build great optimized and performant applications to run on the Roku platform
• Navigate through ambiguous problem spaces and meticulously distill out design choices, trade-offs, and priorities

We’re excited if you have

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 20+ years of experience in embedded C++ development and toolchain
• Extensive experience with software development on embedded Linux
• Extensive experience in designing ABI compatible APIs
• Experience with multi-process architectures and IPC mechanisms
• Experience with UI/app frameworks from iOS, Android, Windows and/or Linux desktop
• Excellent software design and architecture skills
• Ability to present technical direction and progress at executive level
• Proven track record of shipping software on high-volume international CE devices
• Experience working in large cross functional teams and ability to influence teams that don’t report to you
• Ability to see the big picture while focused on short-term objectives and deliverables
• Ability to multi-task and drive parallel projects and distributed teams with tight deadlines

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