Software Engineer, TVUI Engineering

About Netflix and Member Engineering

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. We are constantly pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom, and making the unimaginable a reality. Our team thrives on the uncomfortable excitement of merging creativity, intuition, and cutting-edge technology. Member Engineering continuously evolves the Netflix experience to delight, attract, and retain our members. Our team is specifically responsible for building novel product features to help members discover and connect with stories they'll love, on Netflix’s flagship TV application.

We are passionate about UI, ergonomics, performance, and high-quality developer experiences. We celebrate diversity and believe our best work stems from fostering safety, trust, and enabling each of us to be our authentic selves. We selflessly use our unique strengths to support one another and help each other grow. This is a distributed team with teammates across the US, committed to ensuring remote work is a collaborative and productive experience for everyone.

Roles within TVUI Engineering

We are hiring for multiple Software Engineer, TVUI Engineering roles across our TV teams, spanning product innovation and the architecture and capabilities powering product features:

• Product Engineer: Delivers novel product features on consumer-facing Netflix experiences to help members discover and connect with stories. Partners with designers and product managers to define concepts that will shape the future of entertainment, delighting millions globally across various devices.
• Core Engineer: Responsible for building client and UI capabilities and shepherding the architecture of our member apps. These teams accelerate innovation, enabling product teams to deliver rich, performant, reliable, accessible, and high-quality member experiences. They integrate core technologies, frameworks, and building blocks to thrill members.
• Ads Engineer: Develops and delivers the platform for innovative ad experiences to unlock significant revenue growth. This includes building a flexible framework for customizable, engaging creative formats and supporting server-side ad delivery in streaming content, expanding to interactive and video formats.

Who You Are

• Experience designing, building, and shipping consumer-facing software.
• Experience leading projects and communicating with multiple cross-functional partners.
• Strong project management skills.
• 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/TypeScript.
• You strive to elevate the knowledge and skills of yourself and others in a way that fosters an inclusive, collaborative environment.

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 find ways to accelerate innovation (Core).
• You are curious about how members use our application and eager to build product features that entertain the world (Product).
• Colleagues appreciate the unique perspectives and balanced views you bring to collaborations.
• You value the perspective of others when identifying solutions and understand there is rarely one ‘right’ solution, making thoughtful trade-offs.
• You understand that our goal is to solve problems, and a language, framework, or library is a means to an end.
• You have a strong sense of independence, bias towards action, and inclination for collaboration.

Compensation and Benefits

Netflix's compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary, with no bonuses. You choose annually how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. Compensation is determined by market indicators, job family, background, skills, and experience. The salary range for a Software Engineer, TVUI Engineering is $388,000.00 - $558,000.00, which 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. Paid leave of absence programs are also offered. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off; full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.

Culture and Inclusion

Netflix fosters a unique culture and environment. Inclusion is a core Netflix value, and we strive for a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. Accommodations for disabilities or any other reason during the hiring process can be requested from your recruiting partner. Netflix is an equal-opportunity employer, celebrating diversity and recognizing that diverse teams are stronger. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully, without discrimination based on 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.

Key skills/competency

• UI Engineering
• Client-side Development
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Performance Optimization
• System Architecture
• Product Feature Development
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Debugging & Testing
• Large-scale Systems
• Project Leadership