Lead Software Engineer - CTV

Location

On-site - New York / Los Angeles / San Francisco / Ft. Lauderdale

You’ll own the technical direction of Paramount’s Smart TV applications across Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, and other CTV platforms. These apps run on web-based runtimes with tight memory budgets and limited CPU. You’ll build React applications that perform within these constraints, lead a team of engineers, collaborate with product and design, and coordinate with central video engineering and external platform partners to ship features that work on the biggest screen in the house.

• Set technical direction for Paramount’s Smart TV applications. Choose patterns, own the architecture, and make decisions the team can follow.
• Build and maintain application components using React and Type Script. This is a hands‑on role; you ship code.
• Lead a team of Smart TV engineers. Run code reviews, pair on hard problems, and give feedback that raises the bar.
• Architect around CTV platform constraints: web runtime limitations, memory ceilings, rendering performance on low‑end hardware, and platform certification requirements for Tizen, webOS, and other targets.
• Ship real‑time personalization features on Smart TV applications—personalized recommendations, dynamic artwork, and ad engagement experiences built for CTV constraints.
• Collaborate with central video engineering teams to integrate and optimize video players across platforms.
• Work with external platform partners (Samsung, LG, and others) to develop, debug, and certify applications.
• Plan and prioritize technical work. Scope projects, surface risks before they block the team, and keep releases on track.
• Write architecture docs, RFCs, and technical guides. Make decisions visible so the team doesn’t have to guess.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and build tooling for multi‑platform Smart TV deployments.
• Use AI development tools to move faster. Show the team what works and help them adopt it.

• 8+ years writing software.
• 3+ years building Smart TV or CTV applications on web‑based platforms (Tizen, webOS, or similar).
• 2+ years leading a team or serving as a technical lead.
• BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• React and Type Script at a level where you can design component architectures, not just use them.
• State management with Redux and RTK. You’ve made decisions about store shape, middleware, and selector performance that held up at scale.
• Client‑side routing patterns (React Router or equivalent).
• Front‑end fundamentals: HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript. You can debug layout and rendering issues on a TV runtime without guessing.
• You’ve taken features from concept through delivery on CTV platforms, including certification and deployment.
• CI/CD environments with Dev Ops and SRE principles.
• RESTful API integration and data handling.
• Performance profiling and optimization on resource‑constrained devices. You know how to measure, not just improve.
• You write and speak about technical decisions in a way that helps people act on them.
• You use AI tools (Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar) and can point to specific ways they’ve changed how you work.

• Experience with multiple CTV platforms (Tizen, webOS, Vizio, Xbox, Play Station, or others).
• You’ve built or maintained cross‑platform CTV codebases that share React code across Tizen, webOS, and other targets.
• Browser internals knowledge: rendering pipelines, compositing, layout thrashing, and how these behave on TV runtimes vs. desktop browsers.
• Video player integration experience (Shaka, hls.js, or native platform players).
• You’ve rendered personalized or dynamically served content on memory‑constrained CTV hardware.
• You’ve worked with real‑time event pipelines or recommendation APIs on client applications.
• Observability tools:
  Conviva, New Relic, Datadog, Sentry, or similar.
• Experience working in Agile frameworks across distributed teams and time zones.
• Rapid proof‑of‑concept experience. You’ve built throwaway prototypes to answer hard questions fast.
• You’ve introduced AI tools to a team and helped them stick. Not a demo. Actual adoption.
• You care about UX enough to push…