Software Developer

Fox•Los Angeles, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Fox Cable Network Services, LLC seeks a Software Developer (Senior Software Engineer, Ads Engineering), responsible for building back end services in the ad-tech space to help acquire users and fuel FOX’s growth.

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.