Software Developer

Fox Corporation•Los Angeles, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Fox Corporation is a media company that produces and distributes content through brands like FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations, and Tubi Media Group. The company aims to empower diverse creators and build an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise, and strategic thinking. Fox Cable Network Services, LLC is seeking a Software Developer, specifically a Senior Software Engineer in Ads Engineering. This role is responsible for building backend services within the ad-tech space to facilitate user acquisition and support FOX’s growth. The position involves developing and evolving FOX’s proprietary solution for automating user acquisition efforts at scale, extracting data and metrics, and optimizing user acquisition campaigns.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field
Five (5) years of progressive, post-baccalaureate software development or related software engineering experience including building reliable production backend applications across the full software development life cycle
Writing high quality code
Distributed systems and functional programming
Knowledge of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Scala
Knowledge of web-based applications using HTTP or gRPC
Knowledge of Concurrency, mobile ecosystem and reactive systems
Knowledge of SQL and noSQL
Experience in Ad tech, mar-tech or growth tech domain
Experience with Akka, Kubernetes, Linux and Spark
Experience working with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

Write performant Scala code to assist the team in building up FOX’s proprietary solution for automating user acquisition efforts at scale.
Write Scala code to surface data and metrics from FOX’s proprietary solution.
Write SQL code as needed to transform this data into useful insights which can be used to optimize FOX’s user acquisition campaigns.
Deploy software components inside FOX’s Kubernetes-based engineering ecosystem.
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation and handle outages to ensure a high up time of the overall platform.
Initiate and participate in efforts to adjust and evolve the software architecture of FOX’s proprietary solution for automating user acquisition efforts at scale.
Evaluate tools and frameworks in the Scala ecosystem which can benefit FOX’s software architecture.
Participate in code and architecture reviews with the team.