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OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox TV StationsFOX Television Stations owns and operates 29 full power broadcast television stations in the U.S. These include stations located in 14 of the top 15 largest designated market areas, or DMAs, and duopolies in 11 DMAs, including the three largest DMAs (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago). Of these stations, 18 are affiliated with the FOX Network. In addition to distributing sports, entertainment and syndicated content, our television stations collectively produce approximately 1,200 hours of local news every week. These stations leverage viewer, distributor and advertiser demand for the FOX Network's national content.JOB DESCRIPTION

FOX Television Stations is looking for a React CTV Developer to help build the next generation of FOX LOCAL living room and web experiences across Samsung, LG, Vizio Smart TVs and Desktop Web. As the React CTV Developer, you will design and deliver high-performance, large-screen applications used by millions of viewers. You will build fast, responsive interfaces optimized for TV hardware constraints, remote-control navigation, and streaming media experiences. Collaborating with product managers, designers, and platform engineers you will deliver scalable, performant, and reliable applications that bring local news and live content into the living room.

If you are an engineer who combines your strong React expertise with performance-driven engineering practices while embracing AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery without sacrificing high code quality, this role is for you!

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineering leadership to scope, design, build, test, and deploy high-quality Smart TV and web applications

• Build performant, accessible, and maintainable React applications optimized for large-screen experiences

• Deliver high-quality features, enhancements, bug fixes, and production releases

• Optimize applications for low-memory, constrained CPU environments typical of Smart TVs

• Implement remote-control navigation patterns and focus management for living room UX

• Develop solutions using modern React patterns (hooks, functional components, state management, SSR/SSG)

• Work with data-driven architectures and REST/GraphQL APIs to power dynamic content experiences

• Implement performance optimization strategies including bundle splitting, lazy loading, and render optimization

• Investigate and resolve runtime issues, crash reports, and production defects

• Prototype new capabilities to validate technical approaches before full implementation

• Maintain high test coverage through automated testing and QA collaboration

• Document solution designs, architecture decisions, and implementation approaches

• Apply modern development practices such as: AI-assisted coding and developer copilots, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps and observability, Kanban / Agile delivery, Automated testing, Design patterns and coding standards

• Continuously improve team processes, tools, and engineering culture through feedback and collaboration.

• Translate high-level or ambiguous product requirements into complete technical solutions

• Deliver reliable releases with high quality and predictable timelines

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• 3+ years of professional experience developing CTV, Smart TV, or OTT applications

• Current relevant experience developing for SmartTV, tvOS, Android TV, or OTT platforms using React Native

• Familiarity with Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Vizio SmartCast, or other OTT platforms

• Expertise in React principles such as virtual DOM, component lifecycle, component state, hooks, and props

• Proficiency in TypeScript for application development

• Proficiency in React Native tools and technologies such as Visual Studio Code, Jest, ESLint, and others

• Firm knowledge and understanding of HTML, CSS, TypeScript/JavaScript, XML, and JSON

• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced product development environment, under agile project management methodologies

• Experience with state management solutions (e.g., Zustand, Redux, React Context)

• Comfortable with developer tools including Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Charles Proxy

• Understanding of Smart TV platform constraints and UX patterns

• Experience designing interfaces optimized for remote-control navigation

• Experience developing responsive layouts for large-screen environments

• Demonstrated problem-solving skills

• Clear and thoughtful communication

• Strong work ethic and cross collaboration skills

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $145,000.00-150,000.00 annually for high cost labour markets such as but not limited to New York City and Los Angeles, $120,800.00-125,000.00 annually for all other US locations. This role is also eligible for various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.