Full Stack Software Engineer 4 - Content Promotion and Distribution

Netflix is an entertainment technology company whose mission is to entertain the world through storytelling, global fandom, and technology. The Full Stack Software Engineer 4 will build technology for content promotion, distribution, catalog understanding, and member discovery, working across backend services, APIs, and complex user interfaces. The role also involves collaborating cross-functionally to build, test, deploy, and launch features and participating in on-call rotations and incident reviews.

Responsibilities:

• Tagging content with genres, characters, storylines, and other key dimensions
• Designing, launching, and promoting immersive experiences that captivate global fans
• Creating editorial content that invites fans to connect deeper with their favorite titles
• Designing and consuming GraphQL and/or RESTful APIs to power rich client experiences, and building resilient, high-scale, low-latency services in production
• Building complex, high-quality user interfaces with HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript, and CSS, with exposure to React and modern frontend architecture (component design, state management, performance optimization)
• Translating business requirements into technical designs and data models
• Describing complex technical concepts to cross-functional peers, driving conversations and decisions through written and verbal communication
• Work cross-functionally with design, product, and engineering partners to build, test, deploy, and launch features end to end
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident reviews

Requirements:

• Comfortable working across the full software stack: designing and consuming GraphQL and/or RESTful APIs to power rich client experiences, and building resilient, high-scale, low-latency services in production
• Have recent, hands-on backend experience in Java, C#, or a similar OO language, along with solid OO design principles
• Experience with microservices, data modeling, and API design, and translating business requirements into technical designs and data models
• Understand distributed systems concepts like multithreading, parallelism, and software observability
• Have recent, hands-on experience building complex, high-quality user interfaces with HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript, and CSS, with exposure to React and modern frontend architecture (component design, state management, performance optimization)
• A strong eye for UI/UX craft
• Able to describe complex technical concepts to cross-functional peers, driving conversations and decisions through written and verbal communication
• Work cross-functionally with design, product, and engineering partners to build, test, deploy, and launch features end to end
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident reviews
• Curious about a broad range of new or unfamiliar technologies, the consumer base, and product vision
• Seek different perspectives, feedback, and relevant information to continuously grow and improve
• Maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams through clear communication
• Take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering
• Comfortable asking questions and seeking knowledge in unfamiliar or ambiguous situations
• Endeavor to elevate the knowledge, skills, and abilities of yourself and others that are conducive to fostering an inclusive, collaborative environment