Our Vision is to change the way the world communicates. Our Mission is to connect people and things.
We are reimagining the way people watch TV with services like Sling and AirTV. We are redefining the boundaries of communication and connectivity too, with our planned green field 5G cloud native network build out and the Internet of Things. Nothing is out of our reach, and the opportunity to shape the future of entertainment and technology has never been more tangible.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
The successful candidate for this role needs to combine expert software engineering capabilities with solid video knowledge and apply these for complex media technology solutions for SlingTV. Hands-on expertise on microservices, APIs, and Cloud-based software is crucial for this role.
Make technology decisions, options analysis, and recommendations based on extensive knowledge of emerging technologies in the media domain and Industry trends.
Skills, Experience and Requirements
Basic Requirements:
A successful Senior Software Engineer will:
Be available to work onsite out of our American Fork, UT, Foster City CA or Englewood, CO offices
Have a 4-year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, Master's degree is preferred or equivalent professional experience
Have 5+ years of relevant experience
Software development experience and minimum apps development experience
Suggest ways to improve software development approaches for SlingTV and be the "go-to-person" for software development in specific client / player area
Provide leadership to software engineering projects within SlingTV
Work closely with the project stakeholders to gather software requirements, understand issues and present solutions and guidance
Ensure that the solutions to individual projects and problems align with the overall architectural roadmap
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with peer software engineering groups and key internal stakeholders and where applicable, maintain agreed external stakeholders relationships relevant to the achievement of business objectives.
Technologies in our environment:
Here are some of the key technologies that make up our environment. While we do not expect you to have a detailed understanding of each, the more of these you are familiar with, the better.
Deep domain expertise on Roku app development using Brightscript and Roku Scene Graph frameworks. Any expertise with native platforms app development (iOS, Android, and/or Roku) is added advantage.
Knowledge of streaming technologies and previous experience in developing streaming applications is a plus
Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage
Proficiency in one or multiple Programming Languages: BrightScript, Javascript, C , typescript, etc
Knowledge of CI/CD & DevSecOps tools: Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, ArgoCD, Fortify, Netsparker, white hat, OWASP, Vault, Salt Stack, Terraform, etc
Experience with Automated testing of applications, Continuous Integration (CI), TDD, and/or BDD
Knowledge of Serverless / Function as a service concepts, implementations & patterns, web scale and distributed systems
Experience creating, optimizing, and integrating Application Programming Interface (API) calls; background in API development preferred.
Create Technical Requirements Documentation based on Product Requirement Documents.
Build high-level user interfaces using rapid prototyping methodologies.
Design application frameworks for use across multiple products.
Work with internal technical teams to identify and build platform elements required to support key mobile product features.