Senior Engineer, Software Engineering - Ad Manager

Samsung Electronics America Inc•Mountain View, CA

38d•$170,000 - $200,000

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build a next-generation Ad Manager platform that will redefine how advertisers create, manage and optimize campaigns within Samsung's advertising ecosystem. You'll be a part of a full-stack engineering team delivering a highly visible, performance-driven platform designed to serve a large-scale, diverse user base - from emerging brands to global enterprises. Working closely with Product, UX and cross-functional teams, you will translate complex workflows into elegant, scalable solutions that directly impact the growth and evolution of Samsung's advertising business. This role offers significant visibility and the opportunity to to shape a platform that reaches millions of users worldwide.

Requirements

Typically requires at least 5 years of related experience and a bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a master's degree.
Strong written and verbal communication
Golang Backend Development - Strong experience building scalable REST APIs, microservices, and backend systems using Go, with deep understanding of concurrency patterns, performance optimization, and API design principles.
Modern UI Development - Proficiency in building reactive web applications using React and Astro, with solid knowledge of component architecture, state management, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript practices.
Testing & Quality Assurance - Write comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests in various testing frameworks; Playwright experience is a bonus for UI testing automation.
Software Engineering Fundamentals - Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and software architecture principles with proven ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
Full-Stack Mindset - Ability to work seamlessly across the entire stack, from designing API contracts to implementing responsive user interfaces, ensuring cohesive end-to-end solutions.
Version Control & Collaboration - Proficient with Git workflows, code reviews, and collaborative development practices in a team environment with strong communication skills.
Problem-Solving & Ownership - Demonstrated ability to independently diagnose complex technical issues, propose solutions, and take full ownership of features from conception through deployment.
CI/CD & Cloud Infrastructure - Understanding of deployment pipelines and containerization; Kubernetes with Argo CD deployment orchestration management is a strong plus for managing infrastructure and automating deployments.
Agentic Coding Proficiency - Skilled at leveraging AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.) to accelerate development workflows, with ability to effectively prompt, review, and integrate AI-generated code while maintaining quality standards.
Agile Methodologies - Experience delivering software products in an agile/scrum environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Apache Flink for stream processing
Knowledge of Snowflake or data warehousing concepts
Background in building data pipelines or working with large-scale data systems

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test and maintain high-quality full-stack application features, backend processes, REST APIs, UI components and workflows
Implement monitoring and alerting capabilities alongside feature delivery
Participate in incident response, troubleshoot and diagnose issues in production environments, participate in postmortems
Contribute and collaborate with scrum team in agile process environment
Contribute to the growth of other engineers through code reviews and pair programming
Contribute to technical discussions and solution within team
Contribute to technical design specification and documentation
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including architecture, user experience and platform support