Lightning JS Platform Engineer (Smart TV)

Opportunity Our engineering teams are revolutionizing what it means to be a part of inspirational entertainment. From building an army of voters weighing-in on short concept videos, expanding a membership-driven community with viewing perks both online and at the big screen, and innovating encoding tools that empower next-level parental guardrails, we’re bringing the world the next wave of entertainment powered directly by the people who want it. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership in areas that are sure to shore-up our streaming experiences and capabilities. We have a lot of features that have quickly taken to the market that we need to add structure and scalability to. We also have a broad vision of new innovative projects to take the Angel experience to new heights.  This is a high-ownership, high-impact opportunity where you’ll add vision, strategy, and execution for how millions of fans discover, watch, and engage with Angel’s ever growing library of stories.



Why Join Angel

High-Growth Company: Angel is one of the fastest-growing media companies, with record-breaking independent theatrical releases and millions of streaming users worldwide. See our recent interview with Evan Shapiro

Massive Impact: Your work will shape how audiences experience the stories they love—and help amplify light around the globe.

Extreme Ownership: We are a team of owners and entrepreneurs. This is your chance to operate like a startup founder inside a fast-scaling media company.

Mission-Driven Culture: We strive to amplify light in everything we do. Join a team that deeply cares about the impact of the stories we tell.

Future of Streaming: Help build a streaming platform that competes with giants—without playing by their rules.

What You'll Do

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.

What Success Looks Like

Teams love using the systems you built, and innovate freely on top of them.

Discovery is effortless and intuitive, making it easy for other teams to use your APIs

Scalability and resilience of your services is a given, everyone can depend on them.

Your solutions open doors to new horizons, building a platform that raises all ships.

Your system’s simplicity and usability has a reputation of being rock solid. 

What You'll need

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

Requirements

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

Preferred Experience

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

Angel Studios is a new kind of movie studio - we fund, produce, and distribute award-winning titles from independent creators.