Director of Engineering, OTT

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San Francisco, CA
Hybrid
News + Entertainment
The Role

Tubi is a global entertainment company and the most watched free TV and movie streaming service in the U.S. and Canada. Dedicated to providing all people access to all the world’s stories, Tubi offers the largest collection of on-demand content, including over 275,000 premium movies and TV episodes and over 300 exclusive originals. With a passionate fanbase and over 97 million monthly active viewers, the company is committed to putting viewers first with free, accessible entertainment for all.

About the Role: 

As the Roku Engineering Tech Lead at Tubi, you will lead a dedicated team of Roku engineers to deliver an industry-leading streaming experience on Roku devices. Leveraging your deep BrightScript expertise, you’ll drive innovation, performance, and scalability to ensure every viewer enjoys free, seamless, high-quality content on Tubi. Beyond overseeing development, you’ll collaborate with multiple teams (Product, Design,etc.) to shape a clear technical roadmap aligned with Tubi’s broader goals. By fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence, you’ll empower your team to push boundaries and keep Tubi at the forefront of streaming technology.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead, mentor, and build a team of high-performing Roku engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence
  • Oversee the end-to-end development of the Tubi Roku app, ensuring high performance, scalability, and quality code
  • Provide technical direction through code review and establish best practices for Roku development using BrightScript & SceneGraph (This is a must)
  • Partner with the Product Management team to translate business requirements into a clear technical roadmap
  • Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to enhance the streaming experience for Roku users

Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of Roku development experience, including deep expertise in BrightScript, SceneGraph, and other Roku-specific tools and frameworks
  • 4+ years of people management experience, including building and leading high-performing engineering teams
  • Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to coach, guide, and motivate teams to achieve their best
  • Strong strategic thinking with the ability to align team goals with company objectives
  • Capable of inspiring a shared vision while balancing long-term innovation with short-term execution priorities
  • Proven ability to architect and deliver complex, scalable applications on the Roku platform
  • Experience working with Roku as a partner

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is listed annually below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, long-term incentive plan, and various benefits including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.

California Compensation

Base ($245,000 to $350,000 / year) + Bonus + Long-Term Incentive Plan + Benefits

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Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation, and the FOX Employee Benefits summarized here, covers the majority of all US employee benefits.  The following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOX benefits:

  • For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees, the FOX Employee Benefits summary accurately captures the Vacation and Sick Time.
  • For all salaried/exempt employees, in lieu of the FOX Vacation policy, Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy to manage all personal matters.
  • For all full-time, regular employees, in lieu of FOX Paid Parental Leave, Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program, which allows parents twelve (12) weeks of paid bonding leave within the first year of birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement of a child in addition to applicable government leave program(s) and FOX’s short-term disability policy. This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable state, city, and federal leaves and wage-replacement programs in addition to contributions made by Tubi.
  • For all full-time, regular employees, Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
504 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Tubi, a division of FOX Entertainment, is an ad-supported video-on-demand service with more than 40,000 movies and TV shows in the U.S., including a growing library of Tubi Originals, 145+ local and live news, sports and entertainment channels, and 400+ entertainment partners, featuring content from every major Hollywood studio. Tubi gives fans of film, television, news and sports an easy way to discover new content that is completely free.

Tubi is available in the U.S. on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, Cox Contour, and on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, LG TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One & Series X|S, and soon on Hisense TVs globally. Consumers can also watch Tubi content on the web at www.tubi.tv.

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