Roku
Senior Software Engineer UI Infrastructure
Job Description
Salary: £60,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements:- 3+ years of relevant software development experience
- Proficiency in modern C++ with the ability to debug and extend embedded or firmware codebases
- Strong Python experience for building developer tooling and data-processing workflows
- Experience building JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks or working on JavaScript virtual machines and runtimes
- Working knowledge of memory management, threading, concurrency, and debugging
- Experience improving CI pipelines, including validation and quality gates
- Familiarity with logging, telemetry concepts, and data quality improvements
- Ability to design pragmatic internal tools and APIs
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset for cross-team partnership
- Fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain, including coding harnesses, MCP servers, custom skills, or agent frameworks
- Experience shipping real work with AI coding tools
- Build and maintain tools to improve the quality and consistency of Roku OS logging data
- Create Python-based automation to extract, analyze, and validate log usage across large codebases
- Develop offline pipelines for processing logs to support pre-merge validation and automated data contract generation
- Write and review C++ changes in embedded codebases to ensure accurate and reliable logging
- Collaborate with system architects to extend UI framework features and improve system stability and performance
- Use agentic coding to accelerate feature development and testing
- Partner with UI infrastructure, firmware, and CI teams to integrate tooling into developer workflows
- Troubleshoot issues across pipelines and instrumentation, balancing scalability with maintainability
- Develop tools that support the larger development community within Roku
- AI
- Embedded
- Firmware
- Support
- JavaScript
- MCP
- Python
- Roku
- TypeScript
- UX UI Design
- AI Agents
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- DevOps
- LESS
More:
We are Roku, the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, on a mission to power every television in the world and connect the entire TV ecosystem. We build products that connect consumers to the content they love, help publishers build and monetize audiences, and give advertisers unique ways to engage consumers. This Senior Software Engineer role is focused on embedded UI framework development, logging tooling, and automation that improve system stability, performance, and data quality across Roku OS. We foster a fast-paced, collaborative environment where teams generally work in the office Monday through Thursday, with Fridays usually flexible for remote work depending on the role and location. We offer a broad benefits package that may include mental health and financial wellness support, healthcare, life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options, plus time off in accordance with local policies.
last updated 36 week of 2026
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£75,000
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This salary is 7% above the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
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