UI Engineer (L5), Ads Platform Engineering

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

We launched a new ad-supported tier in November 2022 to offer our members more choice in how they consume their content. Our new tier allows us to attract new members at a lower price point, while also creating a compelling path for advertisers to reach audiences that are deeply engaged.

Our Team

The Ads Platform Engineering teams build advertising systems and integrations that powers the delivery of ads using our world class content delivery ecosystem. We use a number of Netflix investments and innovations to power our ads - unique mix of client and server side ad insertions, state of the art content delivery system, ad encoding recipes, content understanding and metadata etc. We deliver ads in a manner that’s thoughtful of our member’s viewing experience and drive great outcomes for advertisers. We also ensure that advertiser brand safety is ensured during serving, members only see the most appropriate ads for them.

Our team is new and yet faced with the enormous ambitions of building highly performant advertising systems and delivering high impact to our business by monetizing our incredible slate of content. As one of the newest entrants in the Connected TV advertising space that’s rapidly growing, we seek to build unique value propositions that help us differentiate from the competition and become a market leader in record time.

We are looking for highly motivated engineers working in the advertising space who are excited to join us on this journey.

Skills & experience we’re seeking:

• General understanding of Ad domain.

• Strong understanding of UX and UI design principles

• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js

• Experience with front-end frameworks and libraries, such as React, Angular.js, and Vue.js

• Experience interfacing with REST APIs and GraphQL End Points

• Experience working in a cloud based environment

• Experience with Fullstack development – exposure to REST APIs

• Experience with version control systems such as Git, SVN, etc

• Demonstrated self-starter who is motivated to learn and is at ease working as part of a team of highly talented professionals

• Demonstrated excellence of analytical and problem solving skills

• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication

• Understanding database concepts and data modeling capabilities

• Developing through all phases of the development lifecycle, from initial technical designs, implementation, testing, to production deployments.

• Experience in test driven environments

• The ability to quickly learn new features, technologies, and to communicate effectively with various business owners, technical staff members, and multi-functional teams.

Nice to haves:

• General understanding of the advertising marketplace and landscape.

• Experience working in the CTV space and knowledge of its unique constraints.

More about Netflix:

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 $100,000-$720,000
 

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 sic