Senior Software Engineer, Java

About the role

The Roku Enterprise Engineering team is at the forefront of building a robust, integrated, and scalable platform that powers critical business processes across the organization. As a cornerstone of Roku's corporate strategy, this team is instrumental in automating workflows across all Business Systems, including Supply Chain, Finance, Sales Operations, and Human Resources. By challenging traditional approaches to workflow automation, the team leverages cutting-edge Engineering practices and API-driven design to streamline internal processes, boost efficiency, and deliver innovative solutions. The team's expertise spans a wide range of technologies, including Java and Python-based MicroServices, AWS/GCP cloud backend systems, Big Data technologies like Hive and Spark, and modern Web applications. With a globally distributed presence across the US, India and Europe, the team thrives on collaboration, bringing together diverse perspectives to solve complex challenges. At the heart of their success is a shared commitment to technical excellence, creativity, a strong sense of ownership, and a collaborative spirit that drives impactful results for Roku's business operations. As a senior technical lead, you consider yourself a platform services developer and developing innovative solutions using modern software frameworks and paradigms. You are self-driven and problem solver, with a strong background in building large-scale software platform and applications. You are execution focused and would develop a reputation for repeatedly delivering projects on-time.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy scalable web applications and services, being part of everything from contributing to web technology and framework stack, to use case and data model design
• Drive architecture discussions, take ownership and responsibility over new projects, and deliver high quality software with tight timeline
• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure the application meets compliance, security and audit requirements
• Participate in the continual improvement of engineering tools, cloud-based technologies/services, and process
• Define and participate in Agile development process, including scoping, technical design, estimation effort, coding, testing, debugging, code reviews, maintenance and support
• Collaborate with cross-function teams and demonstrate great communication skills
• We're excited if you have
• 5+ years of experience in delivery multi-tier, highly scalable, distributed web application
• Deep understanding in software architecture, object-oriented design principles, and data structures
• Extensive experience in developing microservices using Java, Python
• Good experience in Test driven development and automating test cases using Java/ Python
• Experience in SQL / NoSQL (Oracle, Cassandra) database design
• Demonstrated ability to be proactive, self-driven, and make practical trade-offs based on business needs, entrepreneurial spirit
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience in distributed computing frameworks like - Hive/Hadoop, Apache Spark
• Experience in developing Finance or HR related applications
• Experience with following cloud services: AWS Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, CloudFront, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, Elastic Cache, Lambda
• Working experience with Terraform
• Experience in creating workflows for Apache Airflow
• #LI-GL1
• Our Hybrid Work Approach
• Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are flexible for remote work except for employees whose roles are required to be in the office five days a week or employees who are in offices with a five day in office policy.

Benefits

Additional Information

Teamwork makes the stream work. Roku is changing how the world watches TV Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering 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.

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