Senior Software Engineer, AD Serving

Roku·Manchestersenior

In short

→Desarrollar y mantener una plataforma de publicidad en tiempo real de alta escala en Roku.
→Trabajar con IA mediante agentes y herramientas autónomas para acelerar el desarrollo y mejorar la calidad.
→Destacar por experiencia técnica, liderazgo técnico y uso práctico de IA en el flujo de trabajo.

Experiencia en equipos internacionales o trabajo en inglés (requerido para colaboración gl

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia en sistemas de alta escala y bajo latencia.
✓Dominio de Java, Go o Python en entornos reales.
✓Capacidad de liderar proyectos y mentorizar a otros ingenieros.
✓Habilidades de comunicación efectiva con equipos técnicos y no técnicos.
✓Experiencia comprobada en arquitectura de plataformas de anuncios digitales.
✓Uso práctico de IA o automatización para mejorar el desarrollo (agentes, herramientas de código, etc.).

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Teamwork makes the stream work. Roku is changing how the world watches TV Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers. From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines. What does the team work on? A highly scalable and highly available real-time advertising platform is crucial for supporting and growing Roku's advertising business. The mission of the Ad Engineering Team is to build this platform. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Advertising Platform to play a vital role in this mission. If you bring extensive experience building complex systems, love great technology at scale, enjoy mentoring, jumping in, and figuring things out in any system, this role is for you! What is the role? Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate, leading the industry. The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming. Continued success relies on investing in Advertising Engineering. The ideal candidate will possess endless curiosity and be able to pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. The successful candidate will demonstrate a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond promptly to evolving business needs. Building a real-time, highly scalable, and available advertising platform is critical for our success. Our team’s mission is to build a best-in-class advertising platform to support and grow Roku’s exploding ad business. Our platforms are highly performant, deployed at scale, and set new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy. 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 responsibilities of the role? • Work alongside a highly skilled engineering team to design, develop, and maintain large-scale, highly performing, real-time applications • Own building features, driving directly with the product, and other engineering teams • Demonstrate excellent communication skills in working with technical and non-technical audiences • Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions – developers, QA, and infrastructure/ops • Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse • Deliver top-quality software in a timely fashion What ex

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