Senior Software Engineer, Advertising

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.

Advertising Engineering builds the user interfaces and APIs that power Roku’s advertising campaigns, helping drive growth across Roku and strategic content like The Roku Channel. We operate as a highly agile, service‑oriented team that ships continuously—adding features to existing systems while elevating usability, quality, performance, and scalability. You’ll partner closely with UX, Product, and Commercial stakeholders inside Roku and with external strategic partners to deliver exceptional web applications and back‑end services  value endless curiosity, a global mindset with locally relevant execution, and gritty, self‑directed problem solving—balanced with strong interpersonal skills and responsiveness to evolving business needs

This role is for a senior developer on the team building user interfaces and APIs to support advertising campaigns. 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.

"For Massachusetts Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $198,000 - $286,000 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.

• Design, develop and deliver high-quality web applications and back-end services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model
• Add new functionality to existing systems, while constantly working to improve usability, quality,performance and scalability
• Provide technical leadership,guidance and support to other team members
• Take part in the planning and refinement of features along with the team tocome up with innovative and collaborative designs
• Work closely with UX designers, productmanagementand end-users to create exceptional user experiences
• Provide ongoing support and maintenance of existing products
• Deliver constant value back to the business in a highly agile team following continuous deployment

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of web applications development experience
• Expert-level knowledge of Java Script
• Deep experience with NodeJS, Type Script, and frameworks like Express,NextJS, and React
• Working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes
• Expertise in designing and developing APIs, with a firm grasp of API lifecycle management
• Experience building large scale and low latency distributed systems
• Familiarity with database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elastic Search
• Knowledge and experience with programming best practices, design patterns, software design structures, and testing frameworks
• Experience with cloud technology like AWS and GCP
• Mindset toward AI adoption and some experience using development AI tools like
  
  Github Copilot
• Superior problem-solving skills with demonstrable history of autonomously delivering high quality,…