Lead Software Engineer, Payment Platform

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><h2 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #662d91;">Teamwork makes the stream work.</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><strong>Roku is changing how the world watches TV</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><h3><span data-contrast="auto">About the team</span></h3> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Roku Pay is one of Roku's core monetization streams and is well-positioned for significant growth. Roku Pay encompasses the Pricing, Billing, and Payments ecosystems, along with many other integrations that strive to deliver a great experience for our partners and consumers. We are rebuilding our platform to support our growth plans in both domestic and international markets. As part of this exercise, you will have an opportunity to build out a very scalable, performant, and available system that can influence Roku's growth path tremendously, while being on the bleeding edge of technologies, crafting microservices, scaling cloud deployments, etc.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $400,000 - $500,000 annually.</span> <span data-contrast="auto">Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location.</span> <span data-contrast="auto">This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><span data-contrast="auto">About the role</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></h3> <p><span data-contrast="auto">As Lead Engineer, you'll lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and designs, continually assessing emerging tools and seeking innovative solutions to both existing and new challenges. You'll engage in architectural discussions across multiple teams, influence the roadmap, and own key projects and initiatives, providing the technical leadership and expertise needed to drive highly available, scalable platform capabilities.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This role sets the standard for engineering excellence—establishing clear expectations and leading by hands-on example. You'll be an evangelist for best practices across every function, including development, QA, and infrastructure/ops, as well as a champion for platform innovation and reuse. While you'll stay actively involved in code and design reviews, this remains a deeply technical position: you're expected to be heavily hands-on with agentic coding.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><span data-contrast="auto">What you'll be doing</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></h3> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Use agentic AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) as part of your daily workflow, delegating tasks to AI, reviewing and refining AI-generated code, and integrating it into production</span></li> <li>Build and ship features using AI coding agents—delegating implementation, reviewing output, and owning the quality of what makes it to production</li> <li>Own the building of platform features, driving work directly with product and other engineering teams</li> <li>Own the design and implementation of shared architectural layers (e.g., queuing, event systems, shared memory clusters) and libraries that can be leveraged across teams.</li> <li>Evaluate emerging technologies and lead the adoption of new designs that address platform challenges</li> <li>Participate in architectural discussions across teams, influence the technical roadmap, and take ownership of key initiatives</li> <li>Review technical specification documents produced by the development team and mentor team members to raise the bar on quality</li> <li>Stay hands-on with code and design reviews while spending the majority of your time (~70%) writing code</li> <li>Champion best practices and a culture of innovation and reuse across development, QA, and infrastructure/ops</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><span data-contrast="auto">We're excited if you have&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></h3> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) is required, including the ability to effectively delegate, review, and integrate AI-generated code within a production workflow</span></li> <li>15+ years of experience in large-scale backend services, specifically within payment system architecture and implementation, or related professional industry experience</li> <li>A good understanding of various payment flows is required, such as payment processing, card tokenization, payment gateway integration, token vault management, etc.&nbsp; <span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li>Good understanding of different payment processing flows, such as sync vs async, and online vs offline</li> <li>Familiar with different compliance standards, such as SOX, PCI, 3DS, etc.&nbsp; <span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li>Experienc