Software Engineer I

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Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally.
The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company's media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Here are a few reasons why we think you'd love working here:
Building the future of Disney's media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney's technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company's brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.
As part of the Living Room Devices, Roku Client Application Engineering Team, you will help us push the boundaries of what is possible on some of the most interesting 10-foot devices in the marketplace! You'll be part of the team that builds our Disney+ Direct-to-Consumer client app for streaming Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Hulu, ESPN, NatGeo, and ABC News content from one of the most popular streaming devices on the market.
We're seeking a Software Engineer I for the Roku Client Application Engineering Team, where you'll be part of the team that builds our Disney+ Direct-to-Consumer client app on Roku streaming devices and smart TVs. We're looking for an engineer who has educational experience, work experience, or personal project time developing software, and is ready to help develop client apps that provide the best experiences for our viewers. Ideal technology stacks would include front-end technologies, such as Roku BrightScript & SceneGraph, React, Angular, or similar technologies.
Responsibilities And Duties Of The Role

• Be a 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
  

Basic Qualifications

• Experience working on user interface-level code and knowledge of common patterns and architectures (MVVM, MVC, React, etc.), and approaches to present a data-driven UX to viewers
• Familiarity with development and troubleshooting, preferably on set-top boxes or Smart TVs
• Under the guidance of more senior engineers, candidates will be expected to become proficient in the use of reusable utilities and UI components, and generalized logic that can be consumed by multiple applications
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred one year of related work experience and/or internship experience
• Experience with JavaScript client- and server-side development
• Experience with DevOps, gulp scripts, Jenkins and AWS
• Experience creating beautiful, rich, performant user interfaces, including implementing pixel-perfect designs and animations
• Previous work on a range of devices with varying performance and capabilities
• Experience with configuration-driven development
• Performance optimization and feature degradation techniques experience
• Experience creating and extending templated controls, and writing custom controls
• Experience with asynchronous and concurrent code
• Familiarity with unit testing and related patterns
  

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
  

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $99,900.00 to $133,900.00 and in Glendale/Santa Monica, CA is $95,300-$127,800. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
Job ID: 10121013
Location: New York,New York
Job Posting Company: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
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