Thursday 7 August 2014

Senior Full Stack Engineer - Consumer Science Engineering | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA


Senior Full Stack Engineer - Consumer Science Engineering | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA


Engineering

Senior Full Stack Engineer - Consumer Science Engineering

Product Engineering

Los Gatos, CA

THE TEAM:

Netflix is the world's leading video streaming subscription service and is known for its personalization technologies, innovative environment, and unique company culture.  Netflix reaches over 48 million subscribers using over a 1000 devices in more than 40 markets.

The Consumer Science Engineering team is responsible for building many aspects of the member personalization and recommendation engine and enables rapid product innovation by building AB tests.  Some of this is done by building the actual business logic for the site, and other parts are done by collecting big data usage telemetry from devices that feed the personalization algorithm.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

We are looking for an experienced, talented and motivated Senior Full Stack Engineer who is passionate about product innovation, to help build a suite of tools to provide greater transparency into our personalization algorithms for all our employees. 

You will work with cross-functionally with backend engineers, machine learning experts, and data scientists to put together a suite of tools that visualize the data behind our personalization algorithms.  The tool will help answer commonly asked questions such as “Why did we show this row of movies to this user?”, “What was the underlying data that caused the algorithm to pick a particular video?”, “What all actions did a user take in a particular session?”, etc.

You will be expected to work collaboratively, drive the requirements, and build the entire UI and backend data aggregation from ground up.  You will be expected to create and own the framework that other engineers in the Netflix community can contribute additional modules to, making the tool the central repository to visualize user specific information for the member experience.

To be successful in this role, you must have stellar leadership and communication skills, excellent software development background, and thrive working cross functionally with several teams. This is a great opportunity to enhance your cloud computing skills, and simultaneously gain intimate knowledge of Netflix products and services.

MINIMUM JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

- At least five years of relevant software engineering experience
- Proven object-oriented development skills in languages such as Java, C#, etc
- Develop the full stack from data marshaling in Java, to JSP, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to create these experiences
- Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills
- Proficiency in any Javascript framework like Angular, Ember, or Backbone
- Solid understanding of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model in the online environment
- Successful track record of delivering quality results in complex cross-functional projects
- BS/MS in computer science (or equivalent)
 
 
 
 
 
 

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