Job Specifications
Position Summary...Vizio pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television and streaming media, continued success stems from experienced software engineers like you developing core features for the Vizio platform.
We are seeking an enthusiastic Staff Software Engineer for our TV platforms, specializing in native application development to help develop and maintain Vizio’s core operating environment. Staff Software Engineer will be contributing extensively to our embedded UI/UX development, algorithm implementation for complex features to make it more user intuitive and underlying architecture. You will be working closely with product management to understand new features or extending current features for market needs, development using modern & native java script language and integration of third-party apps. You will also be engaged in developing tools which can help larger development community within Vizio.
What you'll do...About the Team A proven track record of shipping high-quality software on embedded platforms is essential. This is a great role for a senior professional who enjoys a high level of visibility and thrives on great business impact. The features and performance improvements you implement directly impact millions of users every day. This is a great role for an experienced professional who has innovative ideas for complex problems and can translate these ideas into ultra-reliable software. We are a close-knit team, focusing on challenging problems that make a difference in our business. We pride ourselves on working in a collaborative environment, and to do so we are in our Dallas, TX office 5 days a week.
What You’ll Do
Lead front-end architecture for high-performance, scalable web and cross-platform experiences—setting standards for component design, state management, routing, and code quality across Angular or React ecosystems.
Design and build rich, responsive UIs using Angular or React; extend experiences to React Native where appropriate.
Own video-first experiences end-to-end: integrate players (e.g., HLS/DASH), subtitles/captions, ad insertion, analytics beacons, error-recovery flows, and DRM considerations in collaboration with platform partners.
Drive Core Web Vitals and rendering performance: profiling, reducing bundle size (code-splitting, tree-shaking), optimizing data-fetching, and enforcing performance budgets.
Establish and evolve design systems and internal UI libraries for reusability, accessibility , and consistency across consoles and apps.
Define API contracts with backend teams; influence domain models, pagination, error semantics, and schema evolution to ensure UI scalability and reliability.
When needed, contribute to backend APIs (Node.js/.NET/Python), including REST/GraphQL endpoints, caching (Redis), and integration with upstream catalog or media services.
Champion observability across the stack—RUM, frontend logging, traces, and dashboards that connect client signals with API performance.
Lead technical design reviews, threat modeling for UI security (XSS, CSRF, CSP), and cross-team architectural reviews.
Raise the engineering bar through mentoring, pairing, and coaching; guide junior engineers and influence cross-functional teams (product, design, platform).
Partner with product and design to translate complex user workflows into intuitive experiences; validate solutions via prototypes, experiments (A/B), and data.
Improve delivery velocity and quality via test automation (unit, integration, E2E with Jest/RTL/Cypress/Playwright), static analysis, and CI/CD for web and mobile pipelines.
Contribute to operational excellence—on-call participation, incident response, root-cause analysis, and hardening plans for client and API paths.
About You
12+ years of professional software development with a strong emphasis on frontend engineering and a track record of delivering high-performance, large-scale UIs.
Expert in JavaScript/TypeScript and deep proficiency in Angular (modern versions) and React (hooks, Context, Suspense); practical experience delivering apps in React Native.
Strong frontend architecture skills: modular component design, micro-frontends or module federation (when appropriate), shared libraries, and scalable state management (NgRx/Akita or Redux/RTK/RxJS).
Proven ability to optimize runtime and load-time performance (CWV, hydration strategies, code-splitting, memorization, virtualization) and to debug complex issues across browser, network, and API layers.
Hands-on experience building video products: streaming tech (HLS/DASH), captions/subtitles, ad/analytics integrations, error handling for unreliable networks, and resilience patterns.
Comfortable with modern build and tooling (Webpack/Vite/esbuild, npm/Yarn/pnpm, linting/formatting, Storybook).
Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, and E2E (Jest, Testing Library); data-driven approach to