Senior Software Engineer, Web Development – AI

What does the team work on? 

The Ads Customer Interfaces team develops full-stack web application services, APIs, and UIs that provide a unified approach to interfacing with internal and external customers across Roku's suite of advertising products. Our mission is to provide the best-in-class user experience and service while aiming to delight users of our products by making their jobs easier and allowing them to focus on their customers instead of getting bogged down by tedious business processes. In this role, you will work as a key member of the Ads Customer Interfaces team.

What is the role?

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television and streaming media worldwide, continued success stems from experienced software engineers like you developing core features for the Roku platform.

Our new Senior Software Engineer will be contributing extensively to our container orchestrated platform, bringing together some of the latest web technologies with Ai expertise to develop a truly scalable and responsive web applications. To be successful you’ll need extensive experience of building reliable and scalable cloud-based solutions, a strong background in software engineering and an appetite to keep on top of modern software practices. This is a great role for a senior professional who enjoys a high level of visibility and thrives on great business impact.

The features and performance improvements you implement directly impact millions of users every day. This is a great role for an experienced professional who has innovative ideas for complex problems and can translate these ideas into ultra-reliable software. 

How will I use AI at Roku?

 
At Roku, we don’t just use AI, we work with it. AI agents and smart tools help power drafts, analysis, and repetitive workflows, while our people bring direction, judgment, and accountability. We’re looking for curious, adaptable builders who can show how they’ve used AI or automation to move faster, raise the bar, and scale their impact.

 
We value your AI skills if have built fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain — coding harnesses like Claude Code or Cursor, MCP servers, custom skills, or agent frameworks. And you can describe projects where you shipped real work with these tools. You know how to drive an agent, verify its output, and ramp on an unfamiliar codebase with an agent helping you.

What are the responsiblities of the role? 

• Design, develop and deliver high-quality web applications and back-end services with modern frameworks and technologies.
• Work as a part of a high functioning team consisting of UX designers, software engineers, dev-ops, quality assurance and product management.
• Build and integrate AI-powered features into web applications and enterprise tools.
• Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions to power chatbot interactions
• Work both independently and paired with other team members to ensure efficient delivery of prioritised features.
• Take part in the planning and refinement of features along with the team to come up with innovative and collaborative designs.
• Develop new features and write test cases to ensure the quality of your code.
• Work with CI/CD tools to ensure that all software developed adheres to both quality and scaling requirements.
• Take a role in continuously improving our software delivery process, making it as efficient as possible, reducing wasteful activities and creating value.
• See a feature go all the way from design stage to being deployed into customer facing environments.
• Demonstrate the ability to dig deep to find solutions to challenging problems affecting our users.

What experience would help someone be successful in this role at Roku? 

• Extensive expeirence  in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web frameworks (React, Next.js, Angular, Node.js, Express) on cloud-based technology, such as AWS and GCP.
• Experience of building large scale and low latency distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimisation techniques, object-oriented programming.
• Experience using modern AI-assisted and agentic development workflows in day-to-day engineering using AI/ML APIs and SDKs
• Hands-on experience developing RAG solutions or working with LLMs for chatbots is preferred
• In-depth understanding of CI/CD and the tools used to implement them, such as Jenkins.
• Experience with software repository tools, such as GitLab and GitHub.
• Experience with productivity tools, such as Jira and Confluence.
• A good understanding of Agile practices.
• Ability to accurately estimate software tasks and work to schedule.
• Exposure to observability tools and practices (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) are preferred.
• Understanding of databases and data architecture choices (SQL vs NoSQL, caching layers, and data access patterns)
• Track record of tuning performance and reliability for highly available services and web applications
• Familiarity with web security fundamentals and secure engineering practices
• Bachelors of Masters Degree in Compute Science/Software Engineering or related subject