Senior Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer - CTV

Senior Software Engineer, Smart TV/CTV Location: New York / Los Angeles / San Francisco / Ft. Overview You'll build and ship Paramount's Smart TV applications across Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, and other CTV platforms. These apps run on web-based runtimes with tight memory budgets, limited CPU, and hardware that varies by model year and price point. You'll write React and TypeScript that performs within those constraints. You'll work with central video engineering, external platform partners, and Product/Design to deliver what millions of viewers see on the biggest screen in the house.

Design, build, and maintain application components for Paramount's Smart TV apps using React and TypeScript

Optimize application performance on resource-constrained CTV devices. Collaborate with central video engineering teams to integrate and optimize video players across platforms

Work with external platform partners (Samsung, LG, and others) to develop, debug, and certify applications

Manage application state with Redux and RTK. Keep the store clean and selectors fast as the app grows

Coordinate with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to turn requirements into working features

Work across multiple agile teams and contribute to all phases of the development cycle

Improve CI/CD pipelines and testing infrastructure for multi-platform Smart TV deployments

Document components, platform-specific patterns, and technical decisions

5+ years writing software

• 2+ years building Smart TV or CTV applications on web-based platforms (Tizen, webOS, or similar)
• BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• React and TypeScript. You understand store shape, middleware, and when selectors cause unnecessary re-renders
• Client-side routing patterns (React Router or equivalent)
• Front-end fundamentals: HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript. You've taken features from concept through delivery on CTV platforms, including certification
• CI/CD environments with DevOps and SRE principles
• RESTful API integration and data handling
• You communicate technical decisions in writing and in conversation. You use AI tools (Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar) to write and ship code faster

Experience with multiple CTV platforms (Tizen, webOS, Vizio, Xbox, PlayStation, or others)

Performance optimization on TV devices: profiling, memory measurement, rendering analysis. Browser internals knowledge: rendering pipelines, compositing, layout thrashing, and how these behave on TV runtimes vs. Video player integration experience (Shaka, hls.js, or native platform players)

Experience working in Agile frameworks across distributed teams and time zones

Enthusiasm for sharing AI tools and workflows that save the team time

You care about UX on the 10-foot screen and you'll push back when something isn't right

From scoping through deployment, you don't wait for someone to tell you what's next

You know which React patterns cause jank on low-end CTV hardware. You treat the build pipeline, test coverage, and error monitoring like product features

You help your teammates get better. Through code reviews, pairing, or writing things down so the next person doesn't hit the same wall

Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world's biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the U.CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.