Senior JavaScript Engineer - Studio UI
Los Angeles, CA, Los Gatos, CA
About the Role:
This position is open for both our Los Angeles and Los Gatos locations.
Studio UI builds the user experiences used by our internal and external creative partners producing original content. With well over 180 million paid memberships and growing, our UIs enable the entire workflow of content production, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale.
You’ll have a direct impact on how the Netflix studio creates and produces shows on a global scale. With an increasing slate of original content being produced every year, our tools manage billions of dollars worth of content spend. Join us to leverage your full-stack JavaScript and UI expertise to help our creatives create the next big hit!
People who do well on this team are self-motivated engineers with a passion for our business and for technology innovation. We look for individuals with deep knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML who are comfortable writing custom JavaScript but also know when to apply off-the-shelf solutions for the problem. We also value people who are passionate about user experience and have an eye for improving the UI. We currently work with TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and Node.js, however the ability to adapt with changing technology is an important strength.
Responsibilities:
- Accurately forecast, budget, and record the financials that are the backbone of our studio
- Empower our content buyers to discover, evaluate, and procure the next Netflix original
- Allow the discovery and management of talent and vendors that work on our productions
- Connect the seams of our ecosystem of tools together in the form of connected, end-to-end workflows
- Enable our productions to coordinate on set in real-time, modernizing a 100 year old, paper-based workflow
- Help content creators promote and analyze content, covering all aspects of setup, acquisition, fulfillment, management, and publishing needed for content to go live
- Revolutionize how we prepare our titles for distribution on our consumer-facing platforms
- Amplify and accelerate our engineering teams by crafting highly usable tools, workflows, and solutions to improve end user productivity and development joy
Qualifications:
- Passion for building high-impact, well-performing user experiences
- Experienced building single-page applications in JavaScript/TypeScript
- Independent, proactive, and able to deliver production-ready code with minimal guidance
- Great communication and collaboration skills working cross-functionally with other engineers, product managers, and designers
Meet Netflix
Netflix is the world’s leading streaming entertainment service with over 195 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen.