Senior OTT App Developer

Sr OTT App Developer

Lead engineer for OTT/Connected Devices applications (AppleTV, FireTV, Roku, Xbox)

Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Experience building apps on living room streaming-media devices like the Roku, Fire TV, Xbox, PlayStation etc.

• Experience with Roku BrightScript a plus

• Work closely with UX designers, product managers, and engineering leadership to create best-of-class, delightful TV-watching experiences.

• Collaborate with other developers to deliver a modern OTT client to Roku, Xbox, Fire TV, PlayStation, and other streaming-media devices.

• Strong programming language and scripting skills.

• A solid understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, etc.).

• Work samples demonstrating experience in building great user interfaces

• Independence and an eagerness to learn new technologies.

• Experience in building SVOD products a big plus - streaming technology, video players, video encoding and integrating platforms such as Brightcove, Kaltura, AWS Elastic Transcoding, Mux, Fastly, Panthera, etc.

• Experience in building SaaS and digital subscription payment solutions such as Stripe and Recurly

• Working knowledge of third party analytics libraries like Google Analytics, MixPanel, Conviva and Mux

• Experience with CI/CD and Cloud DevOps tools such as Travis, CircleCI and GitLab, CodeDeploy, Serverless, Terraform and VS App Center

• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment (Scrum) is a must

• Design and implement new features with our Product Team

• Participate in the deployment of various cloud-based technologies needed to implement projects

• Mentor junior developers

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Qualifications

BA/BS in Computer Science or Art Design or equivalent professional experience.

8+ years overall experience in software engineering

5+ years’ experience in JavaScript, BrightScript or OTT device native language

5+ years’ experience developing high traffic consumer-facing applications/platforms.

12 Factor application principles

TvOS Android Google Firebase Samsung Accessory SDK Apple Homekit

Project ID: #24038156

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