IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer, Embedded UI

Roku

Cambridge · Cambridgeshire · United Kingdom

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on Roku's OS UI/SDK team, you design and deliver engaging platform features like screensavers, wallpapers, trivia, and AI-driven experiences for millions of users. You will build proof-of-concept prototypes in a startup-minded environment and mature them for production. Collaboration with UI/UX, product, backend, and leadership is key to turning ideas into impactful solutions. You’ll apply AI and ML to enhance user experiences and tackle cross-functional challenges. This is an opportunity to shape streaming experiences at scale with engineering excellence.

Pay / Benefits
  • global mental health and financial wellness support
  • healthcare (medical, dental, and vision)
  • life, accidental, and disability insurance
  • retirement options (401(k)/pension)
  • paid time off and leave policies
  • accommodations and adjustments per law
Responsibilities
  • Design and develop features for Roku platform experiences (screensavers, wallpapers, trivia, featured experiences)
  • Build rapid PoCs and iterate in a startup mindset
  • Collaborate with UI/UX, backend engineering, product management to implement new user experiences
  • Translate PoCs into production-ready, scalable implementations
  • Leverage AI, ML, and large language models to create innovative platform features
  • Investigate and resolve technical issues to maintain commercially viable solutions
  • Contribute to API design decisions considering trade-offs
  • Deliver end-to-end features across cloud, content management, and UI development
Key requirements
  • Extensive experience in a software engineering environment
  • Proven work with AI/ML and LLM technologies
  • Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React Native, Python, BrightScript
  • Experience in embedded environments
  • Experience in productionising solutions, including content management and cloud/backend integration
  • Knowledge of core OS concepts such as memory management and multi-threading
  • Experience in API design with understanding of trade-offs
  • Strong communication and cross-team collaboration
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • strong communication
  • collaboration across teams
  • proactive ownership
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React Native

Reference: WJ-747_30182227

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