Senior Software Engineer, Growth & Acquisition

Job Description

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.

Who else is on the team?
• Nick Estorga is helping us refine Netflix's global sign-up conversion across the web, mobile and TV for new and returning customers.
• Harshith Bhaskar, Ramneet Bhatia and Rong Fan work on projects to help our users discover and try out Netflix such as our Free Plan launch in Kenya.
• Kavya Lakshminarayanan, Mamal Poladia and Max Moise support global pricing and plan changes for new subscribers.
• Ashish Nagavaram and John Kaczor help evolve our platforms for rapid innovation and efficiency.
• Pushkar Modi joined Netflix in 2019 and gets to lead this dream team.

What do we need from you?
• You have 7+ 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

What are some nice to haves?
• 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

Netflix is an equal opportunity employer and strives to build diverse teams from all walks of life. We offer a unique culture of freedom and responsibility with a clear long-term view. We recommend reading through these to understand what working at Netflix and on this team is like.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d91q07-3-146-221-204-42 in your application.