Engineering Manager Javascript Foundations

Job Description

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
This is a newly formed team that will benefit from experienced leadership. The Engineering Manager will be responsible for finalizing the team charter, building out the rest of the team, leading the team through the stages of group development, and mapping out investment areas for the next 3-5 years.
• Partner closely with our Product Manager and sibling teams in the JavaScript Platform organization to define and execute on priority investments
• Create strong relationships with customers and stakeholders through continuous feedback loops to ensure high alignment in our investments
• Define how we measure the success and effectiveness of our investments and drive the execution and continuous evaluation of those metrics
• Reconcile the needs of our internal engineering audience against the trends of the external ecosystem to ensure we track prevailing practices
• Foster an inclusive and psychologically safe engineering team by promoting open communication, encouraging diverse perspectives, and ensuring all team members feel valued and supported
Excelling In This Role
• Leadership
• You have experience developing high-performing teams and growing individual contributors.
• You can lead through change as the business evolves to take on new challenges.
• You are a curious and proactive learner that seeks to minimize assumptions and seeks to deeply understand before taking action.
• Collaboration
• You have a proven track record of driving a product vision and strategy while leveraging strong cross-functional partnerships with Product Management, Technical Program Management, and our close partners.
• You command strong human skills and empathy to lead and coach the team through tough conversations with partners and stakeholders.
• You create clarity and drive alignment across stakeholder groups on technical and non-technical initiatives.
• Technical & Execution
• Deep full-stack experience of the JavaScript ecosystem, and have a strong intuition regarding areas of toil that we should be focused on.
• You are a strategic thinker that can connect customer use cases to technology solutions and think holistically about the end-to-end experience.
• You can balance a portfolio of big and small bets that span across short-term and long-term time frames.
• You have strong product instincts and can make tough decisions with incomplete data.
• Communication
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You are able to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• You are timely with your communications and can set clear expectations.
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.

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