Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Job Summary

We are looking for a talented and experienced Backend Engineer to join the Roku APPS team, bringing a strong background in microservices and large-scale systems. You will build extremely large-scale platform products and services used both by Roku engineers across the company and directly by consumers across millions of devices. You will work with Product and Design teams to iterate and build software, taking a concept from ideation to its production deployment and support. You will lead efforts to evaluate new technologies and continue to push for best practices across the entire development life cycle, including code and design reviews. Your work will include managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables while participating in an Agile development process encompassing scoping, technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. This is a high-impact role for an engineer with a consistent track record of improving large-scale systems who enjoys building consumer-facing platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build extremely large-scale platform products and services, used both by Roku engineers from across the company, and directly by consumers across millions of devices
• Work with Product and Design teams to iterate and build software, taking a concept from ideation to its production deployment and support
• Lead efforts to evaluate new technologies and continue to push for best practices across the entire development life cycle, including code and design reviews
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Participate in Agile development process, including scoping, technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance

What experience would help someone be successful in this role

• 8+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems
• 5+ years working with cloud-based platforms and infrastructure
• An understanding of system concepts and approaches such as eventual consistency and CAP theorem
• Ability and desire to lead the design and implementation of backend services coupled with a deep understanding of different data platforms
• Deep experience in building microservices using Java for container platforms such as Docker or Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of databases such as Aurora MySQL and DynamoDB
• Hands-on experience working with AWS ALB, ECS, RDS, or similar cloud services
• Experience with a breadth of protocols and data formats such as REST, WebSockets, HTTPS, JSON, and Protobuf
• Demonstrated ability to drive timely consensus in design with other senior team members
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
• You 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