Full Stack Engineer 5: Games Messaging

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

The Messaging Engineering team at Netflix creates & delivers multi-channel messaging experiences across the Netflix customer lifecycle. The team owns the infrastructure, tools, channel integrations, and notification canvases that enable Netflix to communicate with its members and partners.

The Lifecycle Messaging Experiences team is an experimentation focused product development team.  We experiment and A/B test messaging experiences across the member lifecycle to drive engagement and retention with timely, personalized, and delightful member experiences.  Our outbound messaging channels include Emails, Push notifications, and the browser, to name a few. The team also experiments with and owns the In-App notification center and other messages shown to members across all devices.  This team engages directly with our more than 278 million paid members in over 190 countries directly - by sending >100B messages per year through communication channels both outside and inside of the Netflix apps. 

You can read more details on some of the team’s work on the Messaging Engineering @ Netflix site.

The Role:

As a Full Stack Engineer focused on Games Discovery, you will lead cross-functional projects that span across our Games initiatives focused on increasing member engagement with Netflix Games. You will partner with various cross-functional partners including Experience Design (XD), Content Design (copy), Product, Engineering, Localization, Data Science, and more. You will be a Messaging advocate as you work closely with many stakeholders from different parts of the business and guide them to build the best Messaging experiences. 

You will ideate, plan, track, and build customer-facing email, push, and in-app experiences using HTML, React, TypeScript, and Java. You will also test your work thoroughly, using engineering best practices. You will monitor and dive into issues via tools like ElasticSearch/Kibana, command-line tools, and remote debugging. You will learn to focus on incrementality and identify the data needed to measure whether your test was successful or not, while partnering with data scientists to perform the analysis. 

You will help shape and drive the direction of the Product and Messaging Experiences.  Your passionate ideas are encouraged and expected. As a product innovation team, we value challenges to existing assumptions. Come join us and help shape and evolve our culture.

You will be successful in this role if:

• You are passionate about product development and you enjoy the independence of managing projects on your own

• You have experience in building consumer facing products and apps 

• You own the experiences you build, beyond just your code. You have a passion for quality.

• You are extremely collaborative and enjoy working on highly visible cross-functional projects

• You can make wise choices and take smart risks when dealing with ambiguous requirements

• You are proactive and can move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product

• You enjoy problem solving and are willing to learn how to use big-data queries, debuggers, and command line tools

• You have experience developing reusable, templated frameworks
   

Technical Skills Needed:

• Front-end web development skills (CSS, HTML, one current JS framework)

• Comfortable using common development tools and environments (e.g Git, VSCode, Yarn/NPM, IntelliJ, Gradle)

Nice To Have Skills:

• Experience with Web client development

• Experience with A/B Testing and/or Continuous Explore ML Systems

• Experience working on Messaging

• Knowledge and experience in Email technologies (HTML, CSS, JS, AMP)

• Experience with JVM languages such as Java, Groovy, Scala, and Kotlin

• Experience with localization systems and ICU formatting

Netflix has a unique culture that values employee freedom and responsibility. Apply to talk to us to see if this product development role on a small, impactful, and collaborative team is right for you. 
 

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 $100,000 - $720,000. This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy.

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.