Senior Software Engineer, Growth & Acquisition
Los Gatos, CA, Remote
About the Role:
Netflix is the world’s leading streaming entertainment service with over 200 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. As a global household brand we strive to bring joy to users by connecting them with stories and artists, through a delightful and high-quality experience. We are looking for stellar software engineers to join our team and help us on our journey to entertain hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.
The Growth Product Engineering team is comprised of experienced engineers who are responsible for building highly scalable systems to bring new users to Netflix. We play a critical role in the long-term success of Netflix with a measurable and direct impact on global revenue and subscriber growth. If the prospect of helping Netflix triple subscribers globally is exciting, then this is the right role for you.
As a backend engineer on this team, you will build the business logic and protocols that allow our UI partners to build lightweight and flexible flows for the web, smart TVs, and mobile devices. We like to experiment constantly, which means we are continually A/B testing our user acquisition and retention through experiments in the sign-up and on-boarding funnels. You will develop Java-based microservices and work with many services and underlying technologies core to our product.
Does this sound like something you’d like to do? Awesome, let’s talk specifics.
Qualifications:
- You have more than 5 years of experience crafting robust, high-scale, distributed systems in production environments.
- You love working at the intersection of business, product and technology and are excited to help us grow to over 500 million subscribers.
- You love driving real business impact by applying your software engineering and analytical skills.
- You are passionate about leading initiatives and collaborating across Data Science, Design, Engineering and Product teams.
- You are highly motivated to deliver high quality solutions quickly and without mentorship.
- You can communicate effectively in written or verbal form.
- Your co-workers think of you as someone who is kind and does excellent work.
- You have optimized a consumer facing product through A/B tests and at scale.
- You have worked in Java or other JVM languages, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Kafka, Hive or AWS.
- You are proficient with RESTful API design and implementation.
- You understand what being on-call means and can resolve production outages independently.
- You have experience working in the Growth domain and especially in EMEA or LATAM.
- You have a Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.
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.