Senior Frontend Engineer - Games

Location: Helsinki,Finland

Department: Next Games

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Who We Are

From games on TV to mobile and web, Next Games is a Netflix first-party studio that develops approachable games to entertain a diverse, global audience. 

We design games that Netflix members can enjoy every day as part of their subscription. Our games released on Netflix to date include TV games Boggle Party, Pictionary Game Night, Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends, and Underwatermelon, as well as Netflix Puzzled, available on mobile devices and on tudum.com.  

We proudly combine our Finnish game development culture with Netflix's global entertainment culture, embracing the strengths of both and empowering our talented and diverse teams to deliver their best work yet. 
 

The Role

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you are a crucial contributor to one of our new game initiativesgame teams. As an expert in game frontend engineering, you deliver complex game features with high-quality, extendable, and stable code. You have flexibility in working location, but come into our Helsinki office at least a few times a week.

You’ll be joining a project that has just launched recently, and you’ll be instrumental in taking the newly launched fan favourite to the next level. The ideal engineer for this role is driven to improve team processes, reactive to the concerns of players and stakeholders across the organization, and able to balance innovation risks and opportunities against release schedules and ambitious project scope.

Responsibilities

• Build gameplay features and systems, with a focus on UI-centric gaming experiences

• Fix issues and maintain the quality of the codebase

• Take ownership of features and tasks

• Provide input on technical matters

• Collaborate with other stakeholders on game ideas, design, gameplay, and features

• Resolve performance and stability issues

• Create and maintain relevant technical documentation

Skills and Abilities

• Strong knowledge of TypeScript and React

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Proactive, self-starter mentality and a can-do attitude

• Good communication skills and proficiency in English

Experience

• Experience in web front-end development

• Understanding of mobile software platforms (iOS, Android)

• Experience in professional, team-based software development with shipped product(s)  and having worked on a live product

The Team

We are prioritizing flexibility and innovation on a new tech stack that will allow us to use dynamic content to meet the needs of a broad audience. Our team comes from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and has a fun and open dynamic. 

Does this sound good to you? Then apply today! 

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We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.