Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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 Java Platform Team is Netflix's centralized team for Java backend application development. It is part of the Developer Productivity organization, which enables Netflix's underlying technology and engineering best practices. We work to provide Netflix developers with the best support, solutions, and practices to leverage common centralized needs.
This role helps shape and guide the vision for the larger Java Platform team (JPT). The JPT provides the components and integrations needed for developers to create and maintain Java services for the different workloads across the Netflix backend systems. It is composed of teams supporting build, runtime, testing, IPC, and framework needs for Java services.
This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of Java usage across Netflix’s microservice fleet, optimizing and tailoring the technology to business and developer needs. We are looking for an outstanding leader to help drive the future vision of our ecosystem!
What you will be responsible for managing
Working closely with Product Management to define the Java roadmap at Netflix.
Creating a managed Java platform for users, with a goal of zero developer disruption.
Growing a strong and diverse technical team with a fun working culture.
What skills you should apply to the role
Minimum 10 years of experience managing teams both indirectly and directly.
Recent experience working in a Java Platform domain.
Helping to build the team identity and vision for a team of strong Senior Engineers, promoting IC (Individual Contributor) decision-making, while making decisions when needed.
Able to comfortably navigate the ambiguity of a wide range of customer and partner needs, working to create the best products for the business priorities.
Coaching and development of senior engineers to enable continued growth.
Picking up different hats as needed for the team, including project and product management.
Strong understanding of Distributed Systems fundamentals, and applying them at scale.
What skills would be nice to bring along
SpringBoot framework knowledge (or similar Dependency Injection framework).
Deep JVM knowledge.
Gradle / build management experience.
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Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $480,000 - $1,200,000.
Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.
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.
Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.