Software Engineer (C++, Python, GoLang, or Java)- Onsite 2 Days - Chicago, IL - FreeWheel

Comcast • Chicago, IL

2d • $109,759 - $164,639 • Hybrid

About The Position

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. FreeWheel’s mission is to build great advertising software. We offer the most extensible and transparent advertising buying platform in the world, operating at a massive global scale. We don’t just operate a Demand Side Platform (DSP) – we are the platform that powers hundreds of DSPs! As a result, we process trillions of transactions to satisfy millions of dollars’ worth of advertising campaigns every month. Our employees enjoy a culture of transparency and one with many challenging problems to solve. We value moving fast, building high-quality reliable software, and supporting each other in the service of driving success for our customers’ businesses. FreeWheel is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Buyercloud (formerly Beeswax) Ad Serving team. The Ad Serving system is the backbone of the Buyercloud platform. It listens to billions of ad auctions per day, decides which of our hundreds of customers should participate, and executes complex bidding strategies to provide optimal results, in milliseconds.

Requirements

• Speak, listen, and write in a clear, thorough, and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques.
• Be transparent.
• Set priorities, track work, be transparent.
• Effective at looking at data to inform an approach or decision.
• Develop new and unique ways to improve operations of the organization and to create new opportunities.
• Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
• Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
• Work with team members located in multiple remote locations and time zones.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Five years of software engineering experience.
• A deep understanding of what it means to build systems at scale.
• Experience with optimizing performance, scaling and data modeling.
• A strong grasp of software architecture.
• Significant experience with compiled languages, such as C++, Java, Rust, and Go.
• Experience working in a Linux ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data-driven and model-driven features for our customers to execute their marketing campaigns effectively.
• Scale our distributed application and infrastructure to the next level.
• Optimize algorithms and software architectures to save cloud hosting costs.
• Support and extend the observability stack to capture and alert on any issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations and be an escalation contact for service incidents.
• Write systems documentation, playbooks, and other instructional manuals.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance.
• Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.

Benefits

• Best-in-class Benefits
• Total Rewards
• Commission (for most sales positions)
• Bonus (for most non-sales positions)
• Options for personalized benefits to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level