Software Engineer 5 - TV Client Foundations

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.

The TV Client Foundations team aims to provide a holistic, world-class experience for creating TV applications, including Netflix’s flagship streaming app. We enable engineers to deliver product initiatives that bring joy to people worldwide by focusing on a high-quality, high-velocity, joyful developer experience.

We’re passionate about UI, ergonomics, performance, and high-quality developer experiences. We partner closely with UI Engineering, Design, Platform, and tooling teams to delight millions of customers worldwide on hundreds of different TV devices, from game consoles to smart TVs to cable boxes.

We celebrate diversity of identities, ideas, backgrounds, and experiences. We 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.

We have a distributed team with teammates across the US. While some of us are in person, the team is committed to ensuring remote work is a collaborative and productive experience for everyone, regardless of where you commit code.

The Role
This role will have the opportunity to enable a new generation of Netflix experiences by expanding the capabilities of our TV platform. 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.

You
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.
If this resonates with you, we’d love to talk!

Other useful experience:

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

What’s Different About Us:

• Scale, Impact: You’ll enable over 70 engineers to create best-in-class streaming UIs used by hundreds of millions of members across a broad spectrum of devices worldwide.
• Unique Technical Problems: While our stack is primarily JavaScript and TypeScript, you’ll build on our custom TV platform with unique constraints and capabilities.
• Collaboration and Communication: It’s not all about the tech. We highly value the skills required to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively.
• Freedom, Responsibility, Ownership: We believe in providing engineers with the business context they need and giving them the freedom and responsibility to define project scope, define/debate architecture, identify trade-offs, and figure out the implementation details.
• Our Culture: Lastly, but most importantly, we live by our values.

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 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