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SR Roku Developer (BrightScript/SceneGraph)
Location: located in Colombia - Fully Remote
.Monks Technology Services, part of Media.Monks and S4 Capital, is a global consulting firm mastering AI-powered transformations for the Fortune 100. We combine long-term strategic thinking, deep enterprise experience, and a human-centered approach to help clients transform business processes and dominate their industries.
About the Role
As a Senior Roku Developer (BrightScript/SceneGraph), you’ll lead the development of high-performing Roku streaming experiences—building and optimizing core features like ads (CSAI/SSAI), video playback (VOD/Live), DRM, authentication, and analytics—while ensuring scalability, maintainability, and Roku certification readiness. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering partners to deliver features within the platform’s unique constraints.
Responsibilities
- Develop, test, and maintain Roku applications using BrightScript/SceneGraph
- Implement and enhance video playback for Live/VOD, including DRM integration and custom player UI
- Build and maintain ad experiences, including CSAI/SSAI (pre-roll/mid-roll) using Roku Advertising Framework (RAF)
- Design scalable UI patterns, including complex lists (e.g., TimeGrid, RowList, MarkupList)
- Implement and support authentication flows (e.g., On-Device Auth, Automatic Account Linking, Rendezvous linking)
- Instrument and maintain analytics (e.g., NPAW, Google Analytics) and Roku Beacons
- Optimize performance and stability with an understanding of SceneGraph architecture and Roku limitations
- Participate in code reviews; uphold best practices, readability, and maintainable patterns
- Debug and resolve issues across development and testing cycles; support release readiness
- Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decisions; mentor junior engineers
- Other duties as assigned
About You
Qualifications & Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant Roku/SceneGraph development at a senior level
- Deep knowledge of SceneGraph render thread vs. BrightScript main thread
- Strong understanding of component lifecycle and observeField/unobserveField patterns (including observer GC behavior)
- Proven experience with CSAI/SSAI ad implementations using RAF
- Hands-on expertise in DRM-enabled video playback and custom Roku player UI for Live/VOD
- Extensive experience building complex SceneGraph list-based UIs (e.g., TimeGrid, RowList, MarkupList)
- Experience with Roku Beacons
- Strong background implementing authentication flows: ODA, AAL, Rendezvous linking
- Experience implementing analytics (e.g., NPAW, GA)
- Familiarity with BrighterScript and related libraries
- Effective collaboration in Agile teams; able to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong ownership mindset; able to work independently and deliver reliably in a cross-functional environment
.Monks Technology Services does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender
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About Monks
Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
