Software Engineer 5 - TV Client Foundations

Netflix is a global entertainment company focused on bringing stories and streaming experiences to audiences worldwide. The Software Engineer 5 will expand the capabilities of Netflix’s TV platform by designing performance-focused UI architectures that support numerous use cases, scale across engineers, manage resources efficiently, and enable new technology integrations. The role emphasizes developer experience, performance, memory efficiency, scalability, and collaboration across engineering and design teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design performance-focused UI architectures to support numerous use cases, scale across 100+ engineers, efficiently manage resources, and enable new technology integrations
• Balance developer experience and ergonomics with performance, memory, and scalability
• Apply systems thinking to application architecture
• Dive into the inner workings of technologies to understand how they operate and improve their performance, memory, and interfaces
• Define project scope, define/debate architecture, identify trade-offs, and figure out the implementation details
• Empower other engineers and strive to understand their use cases
• Make thoughtful trade-offs when identifying solutions

Requirements:

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