Senior Software Engineer, Search & Recommendations PlatformRoku • Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer, Search & Recommendations Platform
Roku
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- Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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- Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
À propos
Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we aim to power every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.
From your first day at Roku, you\'ll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We\'re a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.
About the Team
Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. Our multi-disciplinary team is responsible for the architecture and implementation of services that make up Roku\'s browse and discovery platform, the backbone behind The Roku Channel, offering a wide range of free and premium content and entertainment to millions of users in the US and around the world.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building services at scale. With so many people relying on us for great movies, TV, and news, scaling, reliability, fallbacks, and automation of these scenarios are always at the top of our mind as we continuously add features to the platform. We work closely with the product team and iterate on features from prototypes to A/B tests to eventual release to all users. It\'s still early days for this platform, with plenty of challenging and interesting problems to work on.
The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organizations. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs.
Responsibilities
Build extremely large-scale platform products and services, used both by Roku engineers from across the company, and directly by consumers across millions of devices
Work with Product/Design teams to iterate and build software, taking a concept from ideation to its production deployment and support
Lead efforts to evaluate new technologies and continue to push for best practices across the entire development life cycle, including code and design reviews
Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
Participate in Agile development process, including scoping, technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance
Qualifications
Strong software development experience - Java preferably - (Python nice to have)
Expertise in building large-scale cloud services, ideally in AWS
Experience in the appropriate selection of data stores and analysis of trade-offs
Experience with in-memory caching layers such as Redis, Redis Cluster, Memcached, or others
Track record of monitoring the quality of deploys and troubleshooting of production systems
Strong knowledge of the end-to-end architecture of the web, from end-user device to a service in a data center
Master\'s degree in CS, CE or equivalent experience
Benefits Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension). Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving work and life needs. Not every benefit is available in all locations or for every role. For details specific to your location, please consult with your recruiter.
The Roku Culture Roku is a fast-paced place where the company\'s success matters more than individual accolades. We value practical problem-solvers who deliver customer-facing results, work well with others, and keep egos in check. We embrace humor and value focused, collaborative teams that move quickly and wisely. Roku has been changing how the world watches TV since 2002.
To learn more about Roku, our global footprint, and how we\'ve grown, visit https://www.weareroku.com/factsheet.
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Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Compétences idéales
- AWS
- Java
- Memcached
- Python
- Redis
Expérience professionnelle
- Backend
- Search
Compétences linguistiques
- English
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