Senior Android Software Engineer (L5) - DVX Mobile Core

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.

The DVX Mobile Core team is responsible for developing and advancing the architecture of our member app for Android. We aim to leverage the systems and infrastructure that is broadly available at Netflix and figure out the best ways to adopt and apply it on Android. The Core team works with a wide range of engineering groups within the company to enable easier and more efficient patterns and canvases to be deployed to our members. Some of these changes are purely engineering-based, for example to improve key user metrics, while others serve to adopt cleaner development patterns for downstream product engineering.

Our mission is to:

• Enable engineering teams to craft & ship rich, elegant, and performant product experiences

• Enable rapid execution and product innovation on solid, field-tested foundational pieces

• Stay highly aligned with Product Engineering teams yet loosely coupled to have a dedicated focus on technical missions to serve our customer teams

• Advance and promote new patterns and mindsets about Android development within our engineering community

An additional note: Netflix has significant plans to rework our mobile app. The landscape of mobile entertainment has changed a lot in the past few years and we will be building exciting and novel experiences to address these growing expectations. This role is not about improving the app today, it is about improving the foundations for a tremendous amount of change that will be coming in the next few years.

We are part of a global, diverse organization that includes people of all genders, sexual orientations, upbringings, nationalities, ages, and socioeconomic & educational backgrounds. We encourage engineers passionate about building well-structured mobile experiences to apply.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build systems & UI infrastructure that define best practices to help drive consistency, reliability, and simplicity in client code.

• Architect maintainable, performant Android client code with effective documentation that can be leveraged by Android developers on other teams.

• Bring a wide variety of experience building features and frameworks with technologies like Jetpack, Compose UI, Circuit, DI/Dagger/Hilt, etc., to the team.

• Able to assess, apply, and improve on software design patterns such as: MVVM, unidirectional state flow, modularization, asynchronous and event-based programming, Android’s Modern Architecture Development.

• Develop code for testability and write automated tests upon Unit and Paparazzi frameworks to uphold product quality on a high commit-volume code base.

• Keep a pulse on cutting-edge Android technologies and software engineering practices.

What Sets You Apart

• Deep understanding of the technical landscape of Android development and can introduce new paradigms and practices.

• Self-starter comfortable with identifying opportunities and driving forward-looking technical solutions or roadmaps.

• Taking a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering.

• Exceptional coding skills, especially with Kotlin, and can navigate different languages and technology stacks (e.g. classic Java, Typescript).

• You are excited by the idea of server-driven UIs and would be interested in exploring and experimenting with these in more depth.

• You understand the value of testing and know how to implement robust and clear low-level tests (including using bitmap diffs for component rendering).

• Effective at developing strong relationships with cross-functional teams through clear communication, curiosity, and selflessness.

• Strives to elevate your own knowledge and skills and others around you in a way that fosters a supportive, collaborative environment.

• Deeply cares about the quality &am