Founded in 2013, our client is a hugely popular, cutting-edge online streaming television company from California. This free broadcasting service provides millions of viewers with more than 100 exclusive live and original channels that users won’t find on local TV. The content is full of TV shows of all kinds, premium news, on-demand movies, cartoons, viral videos, sports, lifestyle and trending digital series. In a nutshell, there is literally everything you’d like to see on your screen – hand-picked by people who know and love the entertainment industry.

More so, they offer a free app that runs seamlessly on multiple mobile, web and various connected TV streaming devices. Well-known online giants The Verge, Venture Beat, and Vibe declared our customer as ‘awesome’. So, we can say for sure that our client is redefining the future of television.

About the Project

Our client is led by a seasoned team of entrepreneurs, TV and technology executives, and top-of-class team members. $43M+ funding with investors like US Venture Partners, Sky, Chicago Ventures, Universal Music Group, United Talent Agency and Pritzker Group. Top app with millions of users across platforms like web, iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Vizio, Samsung, and more.

One of the hottest startups in Los Angeles and one of the leading video platforms in the industry -often covered in NY Times, Forbes, Techcrunch, Variety, USA Today, CNN, Mashable and more!

High energy culture. Passionate entrepreneurial team. Massive market. Employing the best of the best in the industry. We’re building the future of television.

Responsibilities:

• Work jointly with Product, QA and Backend teams to delivery a best-in-class user experience to entertain millions of users- Design/implement features that anticipate failure and corner cases.
• Maintain detailed documentation on features, flows and processes.
• Effectively communicate and document progress via Jira, Slack and Confluence.
• Work with a variety of OTT devices like Set Top Boxes and Connected TVs LG webos, Samsung Tizen, Vizio smartcast, Hisense Vidaa+, PS4, PS5, Xboxone etc.
• Take ownership and responsibility for your work- Attend and give feedback in code review sessions.
• Capable of working in a fast-paced agile environment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of software development experience.
• Minimum 3+ years of ReactJS and/or Svelte web application development experience.
• Experience integrating REST APIs, ability to quickly pick up new APIs/SDKs.
• 1+ years Typescript development experience.
• Experience working with tools like nx, rspack, vite, webpack.
• Experience developing and supporting high traffic consumer or business applications.

Skills that will get you noticed:

• Experience in high performant application which is capable of running in low resource powered devices.
• Experience building streaming video applications.
• OTT Connected TV / Smart TV / Embedded Devices app development experience.
• Strong ability to troubleshoot / debug issues.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of web browser rendering and UI performance optimization.
• Experience implementing and troubleshooting front end analytics.