Senior Software Engineer, UI
Roku · San Jose, California
Posted about 3 months ago · $370,000 – $400,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Roku's roles stay open a median of 81 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 50% of Roku's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Roku
- high 252 stale, 19 reposted of 254 open
- Hiring momentum
- 328 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Roku's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Roku.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Home Screen team at Roku, you will design and ship features for the home screen and Browse Surfaces, working with technologies like SceneGraph, TypeScript, and cloud services. Your role involves end-to-end ownership of features, building agentic tooling, and collaborating with various teams to enhance user experiences. You will also mentor other engineers and drive performance improvements for TV clients.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Roku as an employer.
What you need
- 7+ years shipping production software with full stack ownership (UI + APIs/services)
- Strong TypeScript and/or JavaScript skills
- Comfort in at least one of: BrightScript / SceneGraph, React (or similar), Python, or Go
- Experience building cloud-integrated product surfaces (REST/GraphQL, event-driven updates)
- Evidence of shipped agentic work (multi-step agents, tool/MCP integrations)
- Clear practice for accountability in code quality
Nice to have
- C++, embedded, or consumer-electronics/TV SDK experience
- Linux debugging, multi-threading, or constrained-device performance work
- Experience with A/B experimentation platforms
- Prior work on home screen, browse, recommendations, or large-scale consumer clients
What you get
- Estimated annual base salary: $141,300 – $360,700
- Health insurance
- Equity awards
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Parental leave
Worth weighing
- Hybrid work model with in-office expectations Monday through Thursday
- Working fluently with AI tools is an explicit expectation during the interview process
- Not all benefits are available in all locations or for every role
Summarised from Roku's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Roku on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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