Senior Software Engineer - Growth Foundations

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 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.

The Role

Have you ever wanted to be a part of something bigger? To have a meaningful impact felt not only by hundreds of engineers, designers, and product managers but over 275 million members from around the globe? When you join the Growth Foundations team, you’re joining the team that sets the technical strategy and vision for the commerce platform that powers a 300 billion dollar company. 

Our team owns and develops the tooling and infrastructure for the Growth UI Platform that powers the growth and commerce UI for all of Netflix. The nature of a platform team means we wear many hats. From developer experience to tooling to support, engineers on Growth Foundations are experienced multifaceted operators skilled in a variety of disciplines all the way from the top of the UI stack to the bottom infrastructure layer. 

As we focus on developing and maintaining both the Node.js-based Web platform and the GraphQL-based API Data platform, we’re looking for an experienced software engineer to help build the UI and data platform to accelerate experimentation while reducing risk and safeguarding privacy. You’ll collaborate with both backend and UI engineers to design and implement a scalable TS/GraphQL-based API system that powers the commerce UI experience across web, TV, Android, and iOS devices. You’ll also architect and develop a rendering engine for server-driven UI and partner with engineers to optimize the tooling and overall developer experience. 

Along with solving complex engineering problems, you will lead projects and help set a long-term vision and technical strategy for the broader Netflix commerce platform with a focus on scale and interoperability with the Web platform.

Skills & Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience designing, building, and shipping software

• Proven ability to lead projects and communicate with cross-functional partners

• Proficient with GraphQL and general API development and consumption

• Able to design, architect, debug, test, and create well-documented code

• Able to identify and componentize common abstractions with an eye for performance and stability of large-scale systems

• Proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript

Excelling In This Role

People who excel in this role:

• Relish complex technical challenges but find deep satisfaction in supporting their fellow developers

• Understand engineering is a team sport and actively farm for feedback and dissent

• Thrive in an ambiguous environment and can self-manage and self-prioritize your time, energy, and resources. Our team sets and implements the roadmap. No PMs here

• Have the ability to break down abstract problems into concrete solutions

What sets you apart?

• You’re known for your excellent communication skills

• Expert at managing large-scale API’s and web applications

• You’re an advocate for best practices and newer technologies

• Current/former professional experience as a UI engineer

• Experience with server-driven UI’s

• Experience or enthusiasm for performance, reliability, and metrics

• You’re hungry and passionate to influence decisions that impact millions of users and billions of requests

Location & Culture

GXF is a US-based team and our general working hours are 10am - 4pm Pacific time. This is a US-based remote-friendly role. For those outside the Bay Area who wish to work from our engineering headquarters in Los Gatos, California, we provide a generous relocation assistance package. 

We believe safe spaces where everyone can be their authentic selves is the key to a strong team so we welcome and embrace all identities, cultures, and backgrounds. Healthy debate but making space for all voices leads to the best outcomes when it comes to decision making and while we play critical roles in the business, we have fun and try not to take ourselves too seriously.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000 - $720,000. 

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background 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.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.