Engineering Manager - Developer Enablement jobs at Netflix in Poland, Warsaw

You will excel if you are comfortable with the ambiguity that comes with innovation, can deliver scalable technical solutions, remove technical debts, think strategically, make decisions for long term effectiveness and are curious.

• Drive new technical solutions across teams, in a multi-disciplinary manner from requirements to applications deployment

• Actively work with product managers and our design team to scope and shape product decisions.

• Revamp and update existing web applications with new paved path solution

• Focus on streamlining user experience with simplicity

• Enhance and maintain existing applications to meet the needs of our partners and internal stakeholders

• Operate in a cross-functional dynamic environment where you will collaborate and learn from stunning colleagues with different roles and expertise to achieve common goal to bring #NetflixEverywhere

• Proven experience in a software development role

• Strong full-stack development skills with strength in front-end UI work:

  • Deep experience with React & GraphQL

  • Strong skills in HTML/CSS

  • Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools

  • Strong programming skills in JavasScript/Typescript. Experience with Java & Node.js.

  • Experience with at least several UI frameworks

• Ability to innovate through iteration; using prototypes and experiments to navigate solution ambiguity and passionate about data insight

• Proven ability to operate and troubleshoot complex systems crafted with microservice architecture

• Experience maintaining and improving legacy systems. Can evaluate and speak to tradeoffs concerning refactor vs rebuild vs buy.

• Ability to learn and use in-house software framework/components/service to build solutions effectively

• Outstanding communicators who are curious, flexible, and selfless

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

As a, you are passionate about absorbing business context and using that to make intelligent decisions that benefit the long-term value of the brand. In this position, you will be crafting and executing digital, social, and offline activations for the entertainment fans. The successful candidate will lead marketing campaigns with confidence, yet act selfless and stay inclusive.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building impactful strategy and positioning for our titles based on strong, locally relevant insights.

• Leading regional campaigns across CEE markets to drive business growth, brand awareness, and fandom in CEE.

• Position & launch Netflix local title campaigns to make them locally relevant and top of mind for our audience.

• Partnership with local agencies and internal Netflix teams to develop integrated communication that delivers on intended impact.

• Lead local extensions of global campaigns with creative and impactful media planning, working on special projects (stunts, content, digital innovation) that build love for the brand.

• Managing campaign budgets, making financial decisions that reflect strategy and best Netflix interest.

• Working closely with the Marketing Production, Publicity, Events and Content team - actively seeking for wins in cross-functional cooperation.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in 360 marketing in entertainment or similar fields across theCEE markets(experience in launching marketing campaigns in Romania or Czech Republic is a must).

• Excellent written and oralcommunication skills in English.Fluency in languages like Romanian, Czech or Polish is a plus.

• Outstanding ability in communication and argumentation.

• Senior experience developing marketing campaigns from scratch including strategic positioning, key art development and video execution, audience identification, media strategy, and launch roadmaps.

• Proven record of delivering outstanding and impactful marketing campaigns.

• A curious creative and strategic mind, with experience in disruptive campaigns that generate social buzz across different audiences in CEE markets.

• Ability to lead, create, and execute campaigns autonomously.

• Strong and agile marketing leader with experience in high-performing cross functional teams, that tolerates ambiguity and shifting requirements.

• Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive projects simultaneously without the support of a large team.

• Maturity and capacity to continuously provide and receive constructive, actionable feedback.

• You are a cultural ambassador, both advocating the local cultures existing within the CEE region as well as being a true Netflix culture example.

• Highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and Development:

  • Lead the creation of advanced data visualizations for data explanation and exploration.

  • Develop web applications using Node.js and front-end JavaScript (TypeScript encouraged) with frameworks like React or Vue.js.

• UI Responsibility and Scalability:

  • Ensure the design and implementation of user interfaces are intuitive, responsive, and scalable to accommodate future growth and changes.

  • Focus on creating a seamless and engaging user experience across all devices and platforms.

• Collaboration and Leadership:

  • Guide cross-functional teams in adopting best practices and innovative techniques for UI development.

  • Ensure consistency and quality across all applications and user experiences.

• Problem Solving:

  • Manage complex data flows and relationships in visualizations, ensuring they are efficiently handled and displayed.

  • Transform and prepare data efficiently for complex visualizations, ensuring clarity and usability.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Design, or a related field, with experience in data visualization engineering.
• Passionate about building beautiful web apps focused on data explanation and exploration, using Node.js and front-end JavaScript, React or Vue.js, with D3.js.
• Focused on making complex data intuitive and useful to a broad audience, iterating on tools based on user feedback.
• Knowledgeable about trade-offs between different chart types and skilled in selecting the best data representations.
• Experienced in working with data from various sources, including API endpoints and relational databases, and familiar with data-centric teams on metrics and analytics.

You can expect to:

• Work on some of the most used internal tools at Netflix, bringing together multiple data sources, metrics and predictive analytics to keep our business informed about how our financial and talent business is performing.
• Work with both creative and business stakeholders to rapidly iterate on your initial designs based on user research and feedback.
• Partner closely with R&D teams to bring new metrics, models and data sources to Netflix.

• Lead new technical solutions across teams, in a multi-disciplinary manner from requirements to applications deployment.

• Revamp and evangelize current platform capabilities to improve existing Partner Portal to focus on streamlining user experience with simplicity and reusability for engineering efficiency.

• Enhance and maintain a suite of existing partner web applications using engineering best practices to meet the needs of our stakeholders.

• Operate in a cross-functional dynamic environment where you will collaborate and learn from stunning colleagues with different roles and expertise to achieve common goal to bring #NetflixEverywhere.

• Proven experience in a software development role

• Strong in Java, GraphQL, and Node.js

• Drive innovation through iterative and incremental delivery

• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex systems crafted with microservice architecture

• Ability to work closely with internal stakeholders and external vendors to understand and leverage their software framework/components/services to build solutions

• Outstanding communicators who are curious, flexible, and selfless

To be successful in this role, you need to be a strong people leader; great at giving and receiving feedback, fostering new ideas, and empowering others. You also need strong data and engineering backgrounds, to be a quick and data-driven learner, and the ability to lead large multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams.

• You intuitively understand business and technology and you leverage that to guide a team by providing relevant context and inspiration.

• Team Building:
  You are constantly on the lookout for talent and have a knack for recognizing and attracting top-tier engineers to your team. You understand the importance of building an amazing team that is additive and diverse, and the value it brings to the overall company. Just as important as recruiting, you develop connections with the team and help them flourish in their roles, so the team retains its best talent.

• Feedback & Development:
  You will coach and guide employees through their strengths and weaknesses through regular feedback.

• Partnership:
  You will continue to establish strong relationships with both business and technical leaders across Netflix.

• You are a strong people leader who also demonstrates humility. You care deeply about people, and their success. You invest in your relationships, so that you have an understanding of the whole person and their perspective.

• You’re not afraid of tough conversations, and are experienced in coaching your colleagues through difficult situations. You are comfortable sharing your perspective on challenging people dynamics.

• You seek to de-escalate tense situations, and are creative & flexible in finding balance with partners to maximize impact.

• You are a strong communicator, and self-aware about how others perceive your comments. As someone in a leadership role you aim to be assertive, not passive nor aggressive, in providing input, support, and feedback.

• You are forward-looking and able to anticipate the investments Netflix should be making to improve efficiency, innovation, and alignment. You identify areas for continuous improvement, and persistently advocate for action to address them.

• You’re allergic to micromanagement. You prefer to give context, delegate, and watch amazing people exceed your hopes and expectations.

• You have strong business intuition, product sense, and analytic chops.

• You have 8+ years of experience in data engineering. You have strong programming (at least 1 major language) and SQL experience in your background.

• You have 4+ years of engineering leadership experience.

• You have worked in a technical role with a large scale consumer facing digital company.

• You have a MS in Computer Science/Engineering, or related field.

• You have strong experience with distributed data processing technologies (i.e. Spark/Hadoop, etc.)

Content Engineering builds the products and services used by our internal and external creative partners producing and managing our global content. Our products enable the entire workflow of content production and promotion, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale.

• Work cross-functionally to build, test, deploy, and launch UIs that operationalize our workflows at scale.

• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.

• Evaluate new technologies and approaches to streamline and improve our rapid application development tooling and conventions.

• Regularly learn and influence new systems and tools as the Netflix platform and ecosystem evolve.

• Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews.

• Effectively communicate complex technical issues and solutions to stakeholders

• Live company values, actively engage in team discussions and provide mentorship while holding the team accountable for collective standards.

• Are passionate about user experience and have an eye for improving UIs, passionate about building intuitive user interfaces in close partnership with UX Designers and Product Managers

• Love brainstorming with fellow backend and UI engineers, product designers, and product managers, and directly with our users, to understand what they want, figure out what they really need, and finally, what we should build.

• Eager to identify business opportunities that positively impact the organization's bottom line.

• Enjoy working closely with business users to understand their needs, and how best to solve them.

• Strive to embrace best practices and are always searching for opportunities to continually improve.

• Are selfless and willing to flex across the stack or into a new domain to help a teammate when needed, never thinking “that’s someone else’s job”.

We would love to work with you if you:

• You have experience building media creative apps and/or media workflow, or geared toward financial use cases

• You are passionate about user experience and have an eye for improving UIs

• You are adept at building enterprise applications with HTML/JavaScript/TypeScript/CSS. We currently build our user experiences with GraphQL, Node.js, and Electron frameworks, and the ability to adapt to changing technology is important.

• You have previous experience working with designers/PMs

• You have previous experience in the Media and Entertainment industry.

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

Content Engineering builds the products and services used by our internal and external creative partners producing and managing our global content. Our products enable the entire workflow of content production and promotion, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale.

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• Work cross-functionally to build, test, deploy, and launch backend services that operationalize our workflows at scale.

• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.

• Evaluate new technologies and approaches to streamline and improve our rapid application development tooling and conventions.

• Regularly learn and influence new systems and tools as the Netflix platform and ecosystem evolve.

• Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews.

• Effectively communicate complex technical issues and solutions to stakeholders.

• Live company values, actively engage in team discussions and provide mentorship while holding the team accountable for collective standards.

• Are passionate about building top-tier, robust, and scalable backend systems.

• Love brainstorming with fellow backend and UI engineers, product designers, product managers, and directly with our users, to understand what they want, figure out what they really need, and finally, what we should build.

• Eager to identify business opportunities that positively impact the organization's bottom line.

• Enjoy working closely with business or engineering users to understand their needs, and how best to solve them.

• Strive to embrace best practices and are always searching for opportunities to continually improve.

• Are selfless and willing to flex across the stack or into a new domain to help a teammate when needed, never thinking “that’s someone else’s job".

• Have experience architecting, building, and operating resilient, highly-available, high-scale, low-latency microservices in production environments, with a proven track record of ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.

• Are proficient with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation, and relational and non-relational data stores.

• Have recent, proficient experience with Java, C#, or other OO programming languages with a solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning, and observability.

• Have the ability to proactively describe complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.

• Have a strong sense of ownership, independence, bias towards action, and inclination for collaboration.

• Are able to recognize, communicate, address and lead the technical improvements as part of the roadmap.

You will stand out as a candidate if you:

Have some of the experience below. These aren't must-haves, but certain teams prefer them, and they can help you fit better in specific roles:

• Enjoy working closely with UI engineers, UX designers, and product managers to deliver reliable and performant services that meet user needs.

• Have experience working full stack, with skills in frontend and backend development, and you are open to diving into both areas when necessary.

• Have experience creating platforms, tools, or infrastructure for engineers, with a focus on understanding their needs and designing long-term solutions.

• Have experience in storage or media processing domains, working with SLOs, SREs, and observability platforms (bonus if you've built an observability solution).

• Have experience developing build tooling, delivery automation, and self-service infrastructure tools.

• Have experience building software and distributed systems for media production and/or distribution workflows is strongly desired.

Our culture is unique, and we live by our values, so it’s worth learning more about

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