Angel · 1 day ago
Lightning JS Platform Engineer (Smart TV)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$121K/yr - $185K/yr
12+ years expAngel is a fast-growing media company that empowers creators and audiences through its innovative platform. They are seeking a Lightning JS Platform Engineer to drive streaming excellence, optimize performance on Smart TV devices, and enhance user experience through innovative features and high-quality code.
Digital EntertainmentFilm ProductionFinancial ServicesMedia and EntertainmentTV ProductionVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Drive streaming excellence at scale — delivering a discovery and playback experience that feels buttery smooth, responsive, and immersive, even on older, underpowered Smart TV models
Tame the hardest devices — making Angel work reliably on low-memory, slow CPU, and inconsistent Smart TV platforms that others give up on
Push the boundaries of what’s possible — designing and maintaining highly efficient, secure, and reusable code that performs under high memory, network, and device constraints
Build, ship, and iterate at speed — rapidly delivering innovative features, testing ideas in production, and continuously improving quality through small, frequent releases
Set the standard for quality and performance — embedding performance, observability, and reliability into the development process within a CI/CD environment
Measure what matters — help define, instrument, and track metrics for streaming performance, app health, and user experience, and coach the team on using data to guide decisions
Hunt down and resolve the hardest, most elusive problems — diagnosing deep performance, memory, and lifecycle issues across the apps, and turning fragile, failure-prone flows into a consistently smooth, high-performance experience from launch to playback and beyond
Multiply the team’s speed and impact — provide expert front-end guidance, perform thoughtful code reviews, and actively coach and accelerate other engineers
Partner deeply across disciplines — working closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to shape features from concept to launch and beyond
Lead through influence — sharing knowledge in brownbags, workshops, hackathons, and cross-team forums to raise the technical bar across the organization
Continuously refine and improve — analyze real-world application performance, debug complex issues, and proactively recommend improvements
Strengthen our foundation — contribute to technical documentation that scales knowledge across Product and Engineering
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience as a software engineer
8+ years of building front end experiences
3+ years of experience within the last 5 years working with SolidJS building front end applications
Extensive experience with Lightning JS and working with Smart TVs
A builder's mindset with a bias for innovation — excited to push the boundaries of a long-standing, high-impact industry and modernize how world-class streaming experiences are built
Deep technical judgment — a passion for thoughtful component design and architectural planning that produces codebases that are resilient, scalable, and built to last
A developer-experience multiplier — motivated to level up how the team builds by improving tooling, test coverage, CI/CD workflows, and overall code health
Comfort operating at high velocity — able to deliver quality work in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements, without losing attention to detail
Strong ownership and initiative — you spot opportunities, define a plan, and execute end-to-end with urgency and accountability
Expert collaborator and communicator — able to clearly articulate ideas, present tradeoffs, and partner effectively across engineering, product, and design
Experience with cloud-based platforms and services, and how they intersect with front-end and streaming systems
A strong grasp of CI/CD — ability to work through small, frequent releases and automation drive quality and speed
Relentless attention to detail — you notice what others miss and care deeply about correctness, performance, and polish
Highly organized and adaptable — able to manage multiple priorities, navigate ambiguity, and adjust quickly as conditions change
Resourceful problem solver — comfortable tackling open-ended challenges and finding pragmatic solutions when the path isn't obvious
Growth-oriented and feedback-driven — you proactively seek, give, and act on meaningful feedback with positive intent, consistently turning it into better outcomes for yourself, your peers, and the team
Always learning — quick to pick up new tools, technologies, and platforms, and eager to apply them effectively and teach them to others
An owner and leader — you execute with high energy, share context freely, insist on candor, and raise the bar for everyone around you
Preferred
Experience with functional programming frameworks like Effect, fp-ts or similar
Experience working within a monorepo managed by pnpm
Experience working with legacy deployment constraints (Supporting Chrome 39+)
Experience with BASH and CLI SDKs outside of the npm ecosystem
Experience with building and deploying apps that use HLS.js
Experience with The Angel Guild is Strongly Preferred
Benefits
100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
Short, and Long Term Disability Insurance and Basic Life Insurance paid for employee, with option of additional AD&D insurance
Generous Paid Time Off
Health Spending Account (HSA)
401(k) investment opportunity with employer match
Paid parental leave
Identity Theft Insurance
Pet Insurance
Company
Angel
We are a film studio platform that helps creators come together with viewers to create high-quality TV and film without answering to Hollywood.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$226.95MKey Investors
Trinity Capital
2025-09-10Post Ipo Debt· $100M
2025-09-10IPO
2025-04-29Undisclosed· $38.14M
Leadership Team
Neal Harmon
Co-founder & CEO
Jordan Harmon
Co-Founder
Recent News
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