Netflix

Software Engineer 5 - TV Client Foundations

Netflix$388K — $500K+*
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on UI architecture and performance
  • Strong background in TypeScript and JavaScript, with experience in additional languages like C++
  • Experience with performance and memory profiling in applications
  • Familiarity with UI frameworks like React, Preact, or Inferno
  • Proficiency in API design and data access solutions like GraphQL
  • Understanding of scalable software systems and architectural design
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a customer-centric approach

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement high-performance UI architectures for diverse use cases
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance developer experience and product quality
  • Optimize performance, memory, and scalability across multiple TV devices
  • Manage and mentor a diverse team of engineers
  • Engage with industry trends and integrate new technologies
  • Analyze and improve existing software systems based on user feedback
  • Drive decision-making on architectural trade-offs while considering business impact and user experience

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans and mental health support
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Stock option program allowing flexibility in compensation
  • Family-forming benefits and disability programs
  • Flexible time off for full-time salaried employees
  • Generous paid time off accrual for full-time hourly employees
Full Job Description

The TV Client Foundations team aims to provide a holistic, world-class experience for creating , including Netflix’s flagship streaming app. We enable engineers to deliver product initiatives that bring joy to people worldwide by focusing on a high-quality, high-velocity, joyful developer experience.

We’re passionate about UI, ergonomics, performance, and high-quality developer experiences. We partner closely with UI Engineering, Design, Platform, and tooling teams to delight millions of customers worldwide on hundreds of different TV devices, from game consoles to smart TVs to cable boxes.

We have a distributed team with teammates across the US. While some of us are in person, the team is committed to ensuring remote work is a collaborative and productive experience for everyone, regardless of where you commit code.

The Role
This role will have the opportunity to enable a new generation of Netflix experiences by expanding the capabilities of our TV platform. This candidate should be skilled in designing performance-focused UI architectures to support numerous use cases, scale across 100+ engineers, efficiently manage resources, and enable new technology integrations. We’re looking for candidates who balance developer experience and ergonomics with performance, memory, and scalability. This candidate is comfortable applying systems thinking to application architecture and is actively engaged in the industry trends and technologies that support scalable software. This candidate thrives on diving into the inner workings of technologies to understand how they operate and improve their performance, memory, and interfaces.

You
Our team members excel when they are curious, growth-oriented, and collaborative. We take a customer-centric approach to our work, so listening, learning, and adapting are essential. We assume good intent and consistently seek to improve ourselves and our solutions. There are no absolutes, and we must remain flexible to meet the needs of our customers and the business, so “strong opinions loosely held” is a valued attribute within the team.
If this resonates with you, we’d love to talk!

Other useful experience:

  • Performance & memory profiling
  • TypeScript/JavaScript
  • Experience with other languages (ex: C++)
  • React, Preact, Inferno, etc
  • GraphQL or similar data access solutions
  • API design


What’s Different About Us:

  • Scale, Impact: You’ll enable over 70 engineers to create best-in-class streaming UIs used by hundreds of millions of members across a broad spectrum of devices worldwide.
  • Unique Technical Problems: While our stack is primarily JavaScript and TypeScript, you’ll build on our custom TV platform with unique constraints and capabilities.
  • Collaboration and Communication: It’s not all about the tech. We highly value the skills required to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively.
  • Freedom, Responsibility, Ownership: We believe in providing engineers with the business context they need and giving them the freedom and responsibility to define project scope, define/debate architecture, identify trade-offs, and figure out the implementation details.


What Sets You Apart:

  • You’re passionate about writing elegantly designed, maintainable, performant software.
  • You enjoy pushing the boundaries of what technology can do and exploring uncharted waters.
  • You love to empower other engineers and strive to understand their use cases.
  • Colleagues appreciate the unique perspectives and balanced views you bring to collaborations.
  • You value the perspective of others when identifying solutions.
  • You know there is rarely one ‘right’ solution, and you make thoughtful trade-offs.
  • You understand that our goal is to solve problems, and a language, framework, or library is a means to an end.
Generally, 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 $388,000.00 - $558,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.

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 details about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

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

About Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American media company founded on August 29, 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, and currently based in Los Gatos, California, with production offices and stages at the Los Angeles-based Hollywood studios (formerly old Warner Brothers studios) and the Albuquerque Studios (formerly ABQ studios). It operates an eponymous over-the-top subscription video on-demand service, which showcases acquired and original programming as well as third-party content licensed from other production companies and distributors. Netflix is also the first streaming media company to be a member of the Motion Picture Association.
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11,300 employees
Market Cap
$127.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.7 billion
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
+27.5%
Revenue
$24.9 billion
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