Software Engineer (L5) - JavaScript Foundations

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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.

It’s an amazing time to be joining Netflix as we continue to transform entertainment. With more than 300 million members in over 190 countries, we deliver billions of hours of TV shows, films, and gaming. We aspire to entertain the world.
 

We are part of the broader JavaScript Platform organization, and we are champions for UI (browser) application teams at Netflix. Our mission is to empower them to easily build, maintain, and deliver applications via the "UI Paved Road", aka the golden path, which includes: a complete end-to-end development toolkit that provides tooling, UI components, browser frameworks and libraries, a Node.js Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for services, and more. We help them focus on innovation by reducing the complexity of building and managing software. We define our success by our ability to accelerate productivity across Netflix engineering. 

The JavaScript Foundations team tackles the foundational JavaScript and language level challenges to enable the success of this mission. The work takes us from the front-end to the back-end and across the entire toolchain. We understand that human collaboration is key, and balance our time between enabling our sibling JavaScript teams to deliver on the UI Paved Road, against supporting our customers directly on critical ecosystem initiatives. High impact initiatives include defining and executing on strategies for: annually recurring Node.js LTS updates, dependency management, supply chain security, TypeScript, and more. This is an incredible opportunity to help shape the future of JavaScript at Netflix. 

The team anchors on the human-facing elements of technology. These elements are emphasized in our Culture Memo and are applied in our day-to-day work. Code is a very small slice of this team's impact. 

About This Role

• Deeply understand how developers use JavaScript at Netflix to create the optimal solutions and abstractions for their use cases, and to help drive and evolve recommended practices

• Collaborate with teams internally and in the JavaScript community to shepherd and evolve the JavaScript vision at Netflix

• Provide and integrate libraries, tools, or workflows that enable developers to build JavaScript software efficiently

• Reconcile the needs of our internal ecosystem against the trends of the external ecosystem

• Define and improve the dependency management, packaging, and publishing story for Node.js

• Address complex architectural problems with simple, intuitive designs

• Drive adoption of new technology into existing complex systems

Excelling In This Role

• You collaborate effectively with a variety of stakeholder groups: customers, partners, and the external JavaScript community

• You build and maintain strong relationships across stakeholder groups through continuous feedback loops to ensure high alignment in our investments

• You create clarity and drive alignment across stakeholder groups on technical and non-technical initiatives 

• You are a curious and proactive learner that seeks to minimize assumptions and seeks to deeply understand before writing code or taking action

• You thrive in an ambiguous environment and can self-manage and self-prioritize your time, energy, and resources

• You are a storyteller and can weave a narrative joining the Netflix ecosystem with the external ecosystem

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.