3 days ago
Warsaw, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction and roadmap for the DeCap team in partnership with Product, Design, and Engineering management.
- Identify and drive opportunities for agentic AI in the product and engineering lifecycle, establishing practices that can scale across the team.
- Set technical strategy for modernizing legacy systems and define domain models, schemas, API contracts, and boundaries between teams.
- Lead complex multi-team, multi-quarter initiatives and make clear technical and product decisions under ambiguity.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, hands-on guidance, documentation, and technical talks.
- Own the stack end to end across backend, data, and UI for device certification, upgrading, and scaling workflows.
Requirements
- Already operate at Staff level and have led large, multi-team, multi-quarter efforts in complex domains.
- Strong backend engineering experience on the JVM with Java or Kotlin, Spring Boot, GraphQL, gRPC, and distributed systems.
- Expertise in domain modeling, schema design, long-lived API contracts, and legacy architecture modernization.
- Have built or shipped an AI or agentic solution and use AI regularly in engineering work.
- Demonstrate product curiosity, independent ownership, sound decision-making, and the ability to align strong engineers.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across a team.
- Preferred experience includes data platforms, complex data relationships, test frameworks, automation tools, CI/CD, developer platforms, technical standards, or device ecosystems such as TVs, set-top boxes, and chipsets.
Benefits
- Collaborate with colleagues and partners across the US, Europe, and Asia.
- Expected to work from the Warsaw office a few days per week.
- Work on technology that shapes how Netflix ships to TVs worldwide.
- Netflix supports accommodation or adjustment requests during the hiring process.
About Netflix
Netflix builds and operates a global streaming service for TV series, films, games, and live programming, and produces original content through its in-house studio. It serves consumers in 190+ countries via subscription and ad-supported plans on internet-connected devices. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Netflix is a public company traded on NASDAQ (NFLX).