Senior Software Engineer, Design Tooling

Netflix is a company focused on entertaining the world by merging creativity with cutting-edge technology. The Senior Software Engineer in Design Tooling will develop and innovate the Design Platform to enhance product development velocity and efficiency, collaborating closely with designers and engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Owning, maintaining, and expanding critical workflow applications supporting hundreds of internal users (React and Figma)
• Implementing AI solutions, when appropriate, that measurably accelerate product design workflows
• Be the engineering lead on projects, working from ideation to implementation to rollout
• Conducting internal user-research to gather insights to inform prioritization and feature development
• Completing medium to large features independently without guidance
• Be the primary point of contact for support requests related to the Design Tooling portfolio
• Work with engineers across other teams to maintain the integrity and reliability of the Design Tooling portfolio
• Participate in on-call rotation to continue to meet our critical SLAs
• Conducting design and code reviews

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and shipping software
• Experience with single page applications architecture, patterns, and design
• Experience fetching data from GraphQL and REST APIs
• Experience with client-side instrumentation and observability
• Proven ability to lead projects and clearly and effectively communicate with partners
• Strong project scoping and project management skills
• Able to design, architect, debug, test, and create well-documented code
• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js
• You're known for your excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• You have an ownership mentality in all the things you build and are comfortable with identifying opportunities and driving forward-looking technical roadmaps
• You take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering
• You're motivated by the scope and impact to influence decisions that shape the future of design workflows
• You're data driven and lean on both qualitative and quantitative data to drive your decision making
• You have a strong intuition for user experience flows
• Expert at managing web applications with complex state management
• Current/former professional experience working with Figma Plugins
• Bonus if you've contributed to open-source projects