Senior Engineer, Software Development & Engineering

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we're making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
Job Summary
This opportunity is at FreeWheel, a Comcast Company, and is a virtual position which can be anywhere in the Eastern time zone. Within Comcast Advertising, the Beeswax organization is building an easy to use, massive scale and high availability advertising platform. We offer our customers the most extensible and transparent advertising system in the world and process billions of transactions per second. To manage the firehose of data coming in, we explore complex tradeoffs and carefully architect high performance distributed systems. Those in turn require elegant and thoughtfully designed interfaces to make the systems accessible to both our team and our customers. We are looking for a Front-end/Full Stack Software Engineer to join our collaborative cross-functional product team building the web application that empowers customers to configure their nuanced advertising strategy.
Job Description
Who You Are:

• 5+ years of front-end/full stack engineering experience at strong software companies
• Experience with React is required
• Comfort with and an understanding of relational databases (we use Amazon Aurora MySQL)
• A solid understanding of modern operational processes and concerns for web applications (deployment, provisioning, monitoring)
• A strong grasp of software architecture (from classes or self-learning)
• An ability to think about and tackle problems analytically
• (full stack) Experience with Typescript is a plus

• (full stack) Experience with Python

What You'll Be Doing:

• Work on a JS application built on top of the API that our customers use to configure our systems
• Drive major architectural changes as we scale to improve our engineering velocity
• Migrate our existing single-page application to a modern architecture built on React and Redux state management
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers and data scientists to evolve these services to provide new experiences for our customers as well as meet our ever-growing scale
• Guide and mentor other engineers on architecture and process

• Do fun tasks like reviewing code, writing design docs and closing JIRA tickets

Successful Engineers Have:

• An ethic of service and a belief in putting the customer first
• A powerful sense of pragmatism to figure out what needs to be done right versus right now
• A curiosity about technology and a desire to use it to solve problems in all sorts of domains
• An openness to feedback and more than just the spelling skills to know that there's no I in team

• An appreciation of repeatability, resilience, observability, and operational simplicity

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Relevant Work Experience
7-10 Years
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