Netflix Looking for Web UI Engineer (L5), Games UI at Los Gatos, CA Full Time

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 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 Role

Who We Are

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services, with over 230 million paid memberships in over 190 countries. We are passionate about delivering joy to hundreds of millions of Netflix members worldwide, whether traveling to a remote location or at home with family. In addition to great shows and movies, our membership now includes exclusive access to a growing portfolio of high-quality games.

The Games UI team is responsible for the platform UI across all devices that Netflix is available, including discovery experiences and in-game platform functionality. We also own a standalone phone controller app on iOS that plays Games on TV. The team is passionate about bringing a new kind of ✨joy✨ to hundreds of millions of Netflix members worldwide, whether traveling to a remote location or at home with family.

We seek a senior Web UI engineer to innovate and build the next generation of games platform UI. This high-impact role enables delivering delightful experiences to Netflix subscribers across multiple canvases. Our responsibilities include working on large-scale A/B tests of features – ranging from highly visible product experiences to core infrastructure that enables existing and future innovations. We care deeply about UI performance, quality, and accessibility of Netflix Games experiences. To bring new kinds of engaging and interactive experiences to life, we partner closely with many cross-functional teams, including product management, experience design, and creative production.

Who You Are

• A UI expert who is passionate about building intuitive and seamless user experiences.
• A Javascript expert with experience working with Typescript and React.
• Self-starter comfortable with identifying opportunities and driving forward-looking technical roadmaps.
• Effective at developing strong relationships with cross-functional teams through clear communication.
• Take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering.
• Strive to elevate the knowledge and skills of yourself and others in a way that fosters an inclusive, collaborative environment.
• Exceptional coding skills can navigate different languages and technology stacks.
• Deeply care about the quality & performance of the product shipped.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering partners to build delightful and accessible user experiences.
• Build UI systems for members to discover and play games on the Netflix platform.
• Architect maintainable, performant Web client code with documentation that developers can leverage on other teams.
• Help drive client code consistency and simplicity to accelerate A/B experimentation velocity and maintain high product quality.
• Architect code for testability and write automated tests to help uphold product quality on a high commit volume code base.
• Keep a pulse on cutting-edge Web and TV technologies and software engineering practices, and modernize the code base to accelerate innovation velocity while upholding high product quality.

Learn More

• We believe safe spaces where everyone can be their authentic selves is the key to a successful team so we welcome and embrace all identities, cultures, and backgrounds.
• Our US-based team is happy to embrace remote work.

At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.

The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $270,000 – $720,000.

This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background 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.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.